I am setting up a new LVS NAT load balancer, running on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.
I have been runnign LVS NAT on RHEL for many years, our current load balancer is on RHEL3, which isno longer supported by Redhat. I have a very strnge problem: performance of http through the LVS is extremely slow at something like 10 kbyte/sec, ridiculous. I have made two approaches for the setup, but arrive at the same problem. kernel: 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 ipvsadm-1.25-9.el6.x86_64 from Centos 6 (becaus my subscription for RHEL6 does not include the load balancing) Approach a) I used my own old scripts based on ldirectord, ipvsadm and iptables to configure and administer my setup as I did on my old LVS. It worked, but as I said, extremely slow. 10 kByte/second !!!! For the moment, I only set up http Approach b) I installed piranha-gui (piranha-0.8.5-7.el6.x86_64, also from centos6) and configured the NAT lvs with it. The simple setup looks like this: TCP (my virtual ip):http wlc persistent 60 -> w2:http Masq 1000 0 0 -> w3:http Masq 1000 0 0 -> w4:http Masq 1000 0 0 Routing in the NAT LVS is: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.53.104.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.53.104.62 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 routing in a real server is: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 em1 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 em1 currently empty iptables: iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ip6tables dito Is something broken in RHEL6 regarding LVS NAT use? Or am I doing something stupid without noticing? I need to get this thing running over the weekend, but am running against a wall! _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
