NetScaler HA pair periodically experiences HA failovers.
The following error is recorded in newnslog:
reltime:mili second between two records Wed Dec 2 15:26:01 2015 Index rtime totalcount-val delta rate/sec symbol-name&device-no&time 0 536581 9 1 0 ha_tot_recovers_num Wed Dec 2 15:26:01 2015 ***ERROR*** deltatime=7 expectedtime=1449163804 actualtime=1449163664
The newnslog indicates that the NetScaler CPU tight-loop is causing the unexpected HA failover.
Complete the following steps for performance improvements:
Go to Shell prompt of NetScaler and run the following command:
sysctl netscaler.ns_vpx_halt_method=2
Perform a warm reboot for the change to take effect.
To have this setting automatically applied every time the NetScaler virtual appliance starts, add the preceding command to the /nsconfig/nsbefore.sh file.
Increase the memory allocated to NetScaler VPX.
CTX121569 - NetScaler CPU tight-loop (LCT) monitor