page lookups slower when use css11506?!

[julxu]

I have configured one armed test load balancing for L4 (http) as below:

service web-test1

ip address 10.10.10.253

keepalive type tcp

keepalive port 8100

active

service test2

ip address 10.10.10.254

keepalive type tcp

keepalive port 8100

active

owner WEB-Farm

content http-test

vip address 10.10.1.56

add service web-test1

add service web-test2

balance aca

port 8100

protocol tcp

active

group http-test-group

vip address 10.10.1.56

add destination service web-test1

add destination service web-test2

active

Our test result shows it slow than just software load balancing on http server.

Please confirm if my configuration is right?

If so, is one arm configuration will slow the lookup speed?

if not, what is the problem can be? and how to deb the problem?

Any comment will be appreciated

Thanks in advance

[Gilles Dufour]

how much slower ?

Did you capture a sniffer trace to compare ?

The sniffer trace is always necessary when dealing with content devices.

It is important to see what's going on.

There could drop, retransmission or other stuff going on.

Also, when comparing just a few connections, it will for sure be slower since we are adding a device in the path and each device introduces a delay.

However, I would suggest you to try with 500k active connections going through. Then let me know which one is faster.

Obviously, if the difference of speed with a few connections is already more than 1 or 2 sec, then there must be something wrong and a sniffer trace is absolutely required to identify the problem.

Thanks,

Gilles.