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Re: [lvs-users] setting weight to 0 (no persistence!), but still new con

To: Tim.Einmahl@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] setting weight to 0 (no persistence!), but still new connections
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:00:44 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Tim.Einmahl@xxxxxx wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> we have been using lvs in production with redhat rhel5 with direct routing 
> successfully for years now.
> Maintenance of server was no problem, because setting the weight to 0 avoided 
> new connections and we only had to wait 
> for the current tcp-sessions to end on the maintained server.
> 
> But with our new rhel6-cluster we are having most of the time the problem 
> that still new http-connections
> are being directed to the server that has a weight of 0, although we don't 
> use persistent connections and there is no
> keepalive enabled in httpd.conf, so each tcp-connection ends after very short 
> time.
> 
> 
> config:
> 
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  192.168.0.1:http wlc
>   -> lxweb1-stage:http     Local   1      0          0
>   -> lxweb2-stage:http     Route   1      0          0
> 
> 
> 
> Running stress test with ab from another server:
> ab -n 600000  -c 30 http://192.168.0.1/
> 
> 
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  192.168.0.1:http wlc
>   -> lxweb1-stage:http     Local   1      12         14323
>   -> lxweb2-stage:http     Route   1      10         13868
> 
> 
> setting weight to 0:
> 
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  192.168.0.1:http wlc
>   -> lxweb1-stage:http     Local   0      7          14317
>   -> lxweb2-stage:http     Route   1      13         13888
> 
> 
> a few minutes minutes later:
> 
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
> Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
>   -> RemoteAddress:Port           Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
> TCP  192.168.0.1:http wlc
>   -> lxweb1-stage:http     Local   0      12         14304
>   -> lxweb2-stage:http     Route   1      8          13902
> 
> 
> 
> Running ipvsadm -Lnc | grep -v FIN_WAIT shows, that there are only a few 
> established connections
> and some SYN_RECV. Repeating this command after a few seconds also makes 
> clear, that there are no ports
> being reused from the ESTABLISHED-connections. So I have no idea why there 
> are still active connections on the 
> server with weight 0.

        Such tests from single client IP can lead to
client port reuse when no new IPVS connections are created.
Are you really sure that such port reuse does not happen?

> Any hint is appreciated
> Thanks very much for your effort
> 
> Best regards
> Tim

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>

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