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Guys<br>
<br>
Im writing to you because we have a two node cluster setup with just
apache2, heartbeart and LVS, and every now and then find that
ksoftirqd/0 runs at a 100%. We find that the only way to fix it, is
to actually reboot the server.<br>
<br>
For a while now we thought it was an IRQ issue, for you just google
"ksoftirqd cpu", and people suggest to look at irqbalancer, setting
affinity. Some have suggested ensuring that your nic supports MSI-X
(which ours do).<br>
<br>
Googling "lvs 224.0.0.81" has led me on a weird path of reading a
lengthy thread on the LVS mailing list, that looks like has spanned
two months and this was in 2010, dealing with this ksoftirqd issue.<br>
Long story short, and if I understood correctly,the <i>ksoftirqd</i>
issue could actually be a kernel versioning issue. And it was
introduced in 2.6.28 and looks like it was only fixed in 2.6.37.rc1.<br>
We run Debian Squeeze, which is on 2.6.32+29.<br>
<br>
For you own viewing:<br>
Start by reading all 'Kernel 2.6.35 and 100% S.I. CPU Time' in <a
href="http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2010-September/subject.html#start">http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2010-September/subject.html#start</a><br>
Then move on to <a
href="http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2010-October/subject.html#start">http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2010-October/subject.html#start</a><br>
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I would like to ask, could it be a a kernel issue? <br>
And is or has anyone else experienced problems with the current
Debian kernel.<br>
If you did experience problems, did using the backports kernel
address this issue?<br>
<br>
Let me know what you think, if someone could assist, it would be
appreciated.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards<br>
Brent Clark<br>
<br>
P.s. I sent this very same email to the LVS mailinglist. No one
really appears to have any valid answers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2012-May/024583.html">http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2012-May/024583.html</a><br>
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