New system, higher active connections?

[H. Wade Minter]

On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, H. Wade Minter wrote:
>
>> We just moved our primary load balancer from an ancient Dell  
>> PowerApp 120 running Red Hat 7.3 to a newer Dell PowerEdge 750  
>> running Fedora Core 5. However, we're noticing something weird.
>>
>> Where before, we were seeing Active Connections in the 1-4 range  
>> even during normal usage, we're now seeing them in the 12-16 range  
>> on average.  We've got the same weighting on the new server as we  
>> did on the old.
>
> someone else reported the same problem a little while ago. The only  
> thing I can think is that RH has done something with the code that  
> we don't know about. If your system is otherwise behaving OK, you  
> could ignore it/recalibrate your ideas of what it does.

Would the code changes (if they're there) be in the kernel/networking  
level, or the packaged LVS?  To put it another way, would it gain us  
anything to build ipvsadm-1.24-6.src.rpm from linuxvirtualserver.org  
and use that instead of the ipvsadm-1.24-7.2.1 package from Fedora?

Thanks,
Wade