503s observed during load test in OpenShift Service Mesh
Issue
- During a load / performance test transactions fail with
response_code=0
withresponse_flags "DC"
in the istio-proxy logs. - The issue is that the connections are getting dropped by downstream(client).
- The issue occasionally occurs on SSL termination and may be accompanied by multiple HTTP status 503 errors.
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- 4.x
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
- 1.1.x
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