[Linux-cluster] Re: Trying to locate the bottleneck

Raymond Setchfield rsetchfield at xcalibre.co.uk
Thu Jul 9 10:47:19 UTC 2009


Hi Henry

Unfortunately not, however I did get this output from /var/log/messages

Jul  9 11:45:41 loadbalancer-01 kernel: Netfilter messages via NETLINK 
v0.30.
Jul  9 11:45:41 loadbalancer-01 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.4 (12289 
buckets, 98312 max) - 228 bytes per conntrack

Thanks

R.

Henry Robertson wrote:
>
>
>     Message: 1
>     Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:20:02 -0400
>     From: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm at eprize.com
>     <mailto:jeff.sturm at eprize.com>>
>     Subject: RE: [Linux-cluster] Trying to locate the bottleneck
>     To: "linux clustering" <linux-cluster at redhat.com
>     <mailto:linux-cluster at redhat.com>>
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>     I think this is created when you first run iptables.  If you have
>     no NAT
>     rules on the load balancer, the ip_conntrack_max setting won't exist,
>     and you'll need to look somewhere else for the problem.
>
>     -Jeff
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
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>     > On Behalf Of Raymond Setchfield
>     > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:13 AM
>     > To: linux clustering
>     > Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Trying to locate the bottleneck
>     >
>     > Hi Guys
>     >
>     > I am trying to locate ip_conntrack_max within CentOS 5.3 but it
>     doesn't
>     > appear to be where I expect it to be. I have googled for this
>     and from
>     > what I have read it should be located within
>     >
>     > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
>     >
>     > Which is where I thought it would be but unfortunately it isn't.
>     >
>     > Here is some output
>     >
>     > [root at loadbalancer-01 ~]# grep conn /proc/slabinfo
>     > ip_vs_conn             0      0    128   30    1 : tunables  120
>       60
>     > 8 : slabdata      0      0      0
>     >
>     > [root at loadbalancer-01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
>     > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
>     > kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
>     > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
>     >
>     > [root at loadbalancer-01 ~]# cat
>     /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max
>     > cat: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max: No such file or
>     > directory
>     >
>     >
>     > I have also checked within  /etc/sysctl.conf and nothing.
>     >
>     > Can someone help me?
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance
>     >
>     > Raymond
>     >
>
>
>
> Try 'modprobe ip_conntrack' and see if it shows up. After that I was 
> able to set the value in /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> Good luck!
>
> Henry 
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