Dave, Just wondering how many virtual IP addresses you have set-up? And how many connections per second you are getting? The XL max throughput is 900 mpbs according to technical specs.
I guess you could look at memory also? HTH Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Morehead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:29 PM Subject: [f-nsp] serveriron XL loadbalancer using 100% cpu > My company recently purchased a serverironxl loadbalancer (16 ports with > 1 gigabit fiber port) we attached 16 webservers to the device and setup > the virtual and real servers appropriately everything was running fine > with the servers running stand alone no loadbalancing. Once we changed > dns to use the loadbalanced ips the cpu went to 99% and download speeds > decreased significantly. It was pushing about 700 mbits before > loadbalancing was turned on after we started using the load balancing > traffic went down 30%, there are a few hundred websites running on all > these servers. > > So im wondering if this is just to much for the device to handle? I > would think it should not be a problem for it but im no expert. we have > another server iron pushing over 780 mbits but with fewer sites behind > it. So could it be the large number of sites overwhelming the device? > its running firmware ver Version 07.3.05T12 > > thanks in advance for any help > dave > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp >
