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Taylor77_133376
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Sep 10, 2013

Pool round-robin load balancing not balanced

I have a simple pool created with 4 Linux web servers in it. (running version 10.2.1) Two of the webservers are physical machines, and two are virtual.   I have selected round-robin as the load...
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afedden_1985
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Sep 10, 2013

Well as it says in the SOL7751 http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/700/sol7751.html Your running version 10 so you are using CMP Clustered Multi-Processing

 

Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) is a feature that was added in BIG-IP 9.4.0. CMP allows specific platforms with multiple processing cores to use multiple Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) instances to increase traffic management capacity.

 

Clustered Multip-Processing (CMP) can be a significant factor in how the BIG-IP system distributes connections across active TMM instances, which in turn can affect distribution to pool members.

 

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Joe_M
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Sep 10, 2013
Not necessarily. 1500's and 3400's do not run CMP on any version since they are single core systems.