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aparekh
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusUneven Load balancing Round Robin in F5
Hello Team, We are facing uneven load balancing in one of the VIP. Simple round robin algorithm is used for load balancing. No persistence/One connect or any other attribute is configured which over...
Hi,
So at a guess and not knowing your application you could have large queries or traffic requests coming through which is over time landing on one server rather than the other.
If the servers are the same side, a large query might take longer to complete, so it'll slow and over time get slower and slower. (if that make sense)
Round robin is just a 1,23,4,1,2,3,4,1 etc algorithm so not traffic driven more process driven.
Maybe try least connections instead as a start, this looks at which servers have less connections open/sent to it.
So its trying to look at loading more.
the issue may come in the fact you can't see how large the queries are, but the more advanced LTM features can look at timing etc etc.
aparekhNimbostratus
NimbostratusIn our environment it is not possible to change the algorithm and try to do the least connection. User's query is why the are getting more hits on first server then second. After a long investigation we found that the server's are having different CPU and memory capabilities. That's why this was happing.