[lvs-users] two box lvs with keepalived: the backup gets horrible slow

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am trying to setup a two box lvs as described in section
> 9.3 of the howto (the version with a single nic and 2 marks).
> For testing I have setup a telnet service.
> 
> The first telnet session picks up the master, the second
> telnet is sent to the backup, as expected. Problem: If the
> telnet session to the backup is terminated, then the backup
> gets horrible slow. The master is as fast as usual (as it
> seems).
> 
> I got the same problem for using Apache, so I would assume
> that telnet is innocent.

Strange. What exactly do you mean by fast and slow?