[CentOS] IPVS connections not removed

Fri Dec 22 10:27:49 UTC 2006
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

On 22/12/06, Sébastien AVELINE <saveline at alinto.net> wrote:
> Hi centos users,
>
> I've installed a load balancer using lvs (with direct routing). I use LVS
> with a heartbeat configuration and ldirectord and I don't use
> persistent connections.My problem is when i am running "ipvsadm -lcn", I can
> see a lot of connections with the CLOSE (or others states)
> state going from 00:59 to 00:01, and then going back to 00:59. In other
> words these connections should be dropped after they timed out but the
> counter is
> reseted to 60. I wanted to compare these entries on my real servers with
> netstat and I can say that these connections are not on my real servers and
> they should
> be dropped from ip_vs_conn entries. My connection table is growing and I'm
> wondering if this connections table will not be too huge after a long time.
>
> I use the latest kernel :2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
> My ipvsadm version is : ipvsadm v1.24 2003/06/07 (compiled with popt and
> IPVS
> v1.2.0)
>
> I tried to see with redhat bugzilla but I am still waiting for an answer. I
> wanted to know if there is a solution and if it will be scheduled for the
> next kernel (I think that others users camed across this problem).
> Thanks you for your answers.

Where did you get your ldirector/ipvsadm from? I have 2 sets of 2 load
balancers running without any problems at all. They're all

CentOS 4.4
Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
heartbeat-1.2.3.cvs.20050927-1.centos4
heartbeat-ldirectord-1.2.3.cvs.20050927-1.centos4
ipvsadm-1.24-6

Those heartbeat and ipvsadm RPMs are from the CentOS Extras
repositories and have given us next to no bother at all.

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/

Will.