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Poor UI performances and many packets drop by tunl0 and calico interfaces on Power nodes.

Troubleshooting


Problem

The ICP v3.2 deployed on Power nodes from time to time experiences slow performances with some UI elements.

Command line works better, it never evidences delays.

Looking at the output of ifconfig on the cluster nodes, I noticed lot of packets being dropped
cali049fd204478: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1370
        inet6 fe80::ecee:eeff:feee:eeee  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether ee:ee:ee:ee:ee:ee  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 267419938  bytes 508053226147 (473.1 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 213405984  bytes 353451811693 (329.1 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 6227797 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
..
..
tunl0: flags=193<UP,RUNNING,NOARP>  mtu 1370
        inet 10.1.147.0  netmask 255.255.255.255
        tunnel   txqueuelen 1000  (IPIP Tunnel)
        RX packets 267419938  bytes 508053226147 (473.1 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 213405984  bytes 353451811693 (329.1 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 6227797 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

The number of dropped packets keeps growing, so this can be a possible reason for the poor performances noticed in UI.
What can be the root cause for this and how to fix it ?

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Modified date:
29 July 2019

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