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On 13 September 2010 16:25, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:52:29PM +0100, JL wrote:
>> OK, More information:
>>
>> I hope someone who is up on ipvs kernel side is listening!
>
> I am listening, sorry for not responding earlier.
Thanks. I was getting nervous :)
>> If a backup machines receives an IPVS state update packet (the ones
>> sent to 224.0.0.81) with a certain number of connections in it
>> (somewhere between two and eight, inclusive, will trigger it) then SI
>> goes to 100% on the backup immediately.
>>
>> Firewalling 224.0.0.81 insulates you from the problem (although, of
>> course, is unsuitable for a live deployment).
>
> Presumably turning off connection synchronisation
> has the same effect.
>> Feeding in only one connection at a time (slowly enough that the each
>> have their own IPVS packet) doesn't trigger the problem.
>
> So it occurs if the number of synchronised connections in
> a single packet is between 2 and 8. So 1 is ok, and so is 9?
No, one is ok, but somewhere between 2 and 8 this problem begins, and
anything higher has the problem. I just haven't been able to narrow
down the number any tighter than that.
However, some more testing indicates that it is not that straight-forward.
If I trigger it by pressing reload in the browser (which kicks off
about 9 HTTPS connections) I get the problem - If I put those same
gets into a bash script, and get them all at once, then it doesn't.
I'm still trying to simplify the problem down to a simple script I can run.
This is a two-node LVS/RS system. I have found that if none the
connections in the state packet are to backup machine, then it doesn't
trigger this problem.
>> This happens with linux 2.6.35.4, but not 2.6.27.45.
>
> That is a fairly wide number of kernel versions.
> But if it is easy to reproduce then it should be fairly easy to track down.
That was the intent of coming up with a simple test - that I could try
a number of different kernel versions, and see where the problem
appears.
Investigation is ongoing...
Thanks,
--
Jarrod Lowe
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