On 05/11/2012 04:50 PM, Baptiste wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Joeri Blokhuis | DongIT > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello guys, >> >> I would like to benchmark and test the 'source' balance algorithm of >> HAProxy before any loadbalancers are put in >> production. The 'source' algorithm is based on the IP source address, so >> when nothing changes in the backend, a client >> should always connect to the same server. I would like to test this on a >> large scale, with many clients and different source addresses. Any >> suggestions/ideas and or tools on how I can accomplish this? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> Joeri >> > Hi, > > For your information, you can enable "hash-type consistent" to avoid > client move when the number of server in the farm changes. > > cheers Thank you, I will definitely look into that option. Any idea on how I can create a test with such a load on my farm that I can test how traffic is divided amongst the backend servers? And also to create some scenario's of when a server fails to see if the clients are moved to another server?
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