LVS DR increased "system CPU" and Excessive Network Traffic

[Rob]

Sal Tepedino wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 18:10 -0700, Rob wrote:
>> Is that a configuration that works for other people?
>> with no separate real servers? I hadn't ever tried that...
> 
> I'm running a LVS DR Localnode right now. Works fine.

Sweet I will have to try that.

> 
>> Despite what Sal said, I would definitely do anything you can to separate sync 
>> traffic from LVS Dir traffic because it will simplify your initial 
>> troubleshooting 
> 
> Well, he was suggesting moving the traffic to another interface so it
> can take up 20% of the interface and it wouldn't matter, and he wouldn't
> have to deal with it, which I was saying, and he already figured, was
> probably not a good idea because it just masks the problem and doesn't
> really solve anything. It sounds like he's still setting things up, so
> there's likely no other real traffic on this interface (except, perhaps,
> ssh traffic from him logging in) so it might not be necessary to
> separate it for troubleshooting, but it would help to be sure that all
> the traffic he was seeing on whatever tools he's using was only from the
> directors.

Ah, sorry, I should have been more clear - I agreed with you on the fact that 
it wouldn't help with CPU utilization but didn't state that clearly.