Hi Malcolm, On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:42:31AM +0000, Malcolm Turnbull wrote: > Possibly a stupid question but: > Can Haproxy work as a TCP-multiplexer i.e. combine requests into one > connection to a server? > Or would that be related to using keep-alive?
It requires that we get keep-alive to work first. What you want is the most complex feature. It requires connection pools, keep-alive ability to continuously check the pool, and user-connection affinity to avoid moving users across multiple processes on the server. Right now without keep-alive and using queueing, you can get very close to that behaviour, with the only difference that connections are closed and opened between haproxy and the servers (which is not expensive since both should be very close to each other). Regards, Willy
