I have a Ldirectord server and two real servers. My ldirectord used to check the request page on real server once in every interval, but now I found that it check four times. I have monitored the log on both real servers, they have the same problem.

Here is my ldirectord configuration:

checktimeout=10
checkinterval=5
autoreload=yes
logfile="/var/log/ldirectord.log"
quiescent=no
virtual=192.168.1.100:80

   fallback=127.0.0.1:80
   real=192.168.1.10:80 gate
   real=192.168.1.20:80 gate
   service=http
   request="lb.html"
   receive="still alive"
   scheduler=sh
   persistent=60
   protocol=tcp
   checktype=negotiate

Ldirectord will connect to each real server once every 5 seconds (checkinterval) and request 192.168.0.10:80/test.html (real/request).

The access log in real server:

192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:44 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:44 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:44 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:44 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:49 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:49 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:49 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:49 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:54 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:54 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:54 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
192.168.1.100 - - [13/Jun/2012:10:36:54 -0700] "GET /lb.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"