# Containers become unresponsive

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/containers-become-unresponsive/5924>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/containers-become-unresponsive/5924 "2017-03-22T11:07:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![imranazad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@imranazad](https://forums.suse.com/u/imranazad)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/containers-become-unresponsive/5924/1 "2017-03-22T11:07:25Z")

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So I have two containers:

Load balancer

Nginx website

I scale these on to two hosts, host a and host b.

If I shutdown host b, the load balancer on host a becomes unresponsive for about a minute or so. Why is the load balancer on host a being affected?