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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lvs-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lvs-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anthony Sturchio
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:21 AM
> To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lvs-users] Large clusters and slow realserver checking
>
> My company has a large number of secure web applications that we have
> running on an LVS cluster. There are about 200 real IP's (for 200
> different
> domains / SSL certificates) and we have 5 different realservers in the
> mix.
> Since we are serving http and https (80 and 443) this works out to be
> 2,000
> realserver entries that ldirectord has to go through. Obviously this
> takes
> some time. We have seen it take up to 15 minutes to expire a downed
> node,
> or to reinstate a realserver once we bring it back up, of course
> depending
> on how far along the list ldirectord is. Using the forking option is
> not
> possible since spawning a high number of processes simultaneously
> brings the
> load balancer to its knees.
Anthony,
We have a similar use case, and for us, we don't use ldirectord. We run
keepalived with the threaded healthcheckers patch. Basically, this allows us to
define checks outside of virtual_server definitions -- so we say "server1
healthcheck http://blah"; "server2 healthcheck http://blah2"; and so on -- then
we point each V_S to the already defined healthcheck.
Using this setup, we're transferring 1Gbit/s peak with about 2000 V_S and about
5 backend servers hosting all the IP addresses (10k healthchecks if done
traditionally).
If you're interested in this, look in the keepalived list archives and pull the
threaded healthcheck patch I posted. There are some good docs inside that, and
I'm willing to help if you need a hand figuring out the config.
Jason Faulkner
Linux Engineer, Rackspace Email & Apps
jason.faulkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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