[lvs-users] help! lvs works as it should (timeouts)

[Sebastian Vieira]

On 7/18/07, lists <lists at loadbalancer.org> wrote:
>
> The windows RDP client sends 1 keepalive per minute if it is maximised,
> and sometimes wont send any if it is minimised.
> As far as I'm aware the default LVS time out is 15 mins.


Thanks, handy to know. I think i'll leave/set it at that then. I never had
any other problems with the default settings before.


And also useful:
>
> With a protocol with a long session & persistence enabled such as
> Terminal Server RDP
> maintenance can become problematic because clients that disconnect and
> re­connect will still go to
> the same server for the length of the persistence time out. You can
> change this behaviour so that
> when a client disconnects the persistence template is cleared forcing
> them to re­connect to a
> different server.
>
> This is activated globally by using the following command from the
> console:
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/expire_quiescent_template


Useful indeed. I already had that setting applied and it works really fine.
Thanks :)

Sebastian