Phil, First, use '-k' option on ab to keep connections alive on ab side.
>From a pure benchamrk point of view, using the loopback is useless! Furthermore if all VMs are hosted on the same hypervisor. You won't be able to get any accurate conclusion from your test, because the injector VM is impacting the HAProxy VM, which migh be mutually impacted the server VMs... Baptiste On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Phil Daws <ux...@splatnix.net> wrote: > Hello Lukas: > > Path is as follows: > > Internet -> HAProxy [Frontend:443 -> Backend:80] -> 6 x NGINX > > Yeah, unfortunately due to the application behind NGINX our benchmarking has > to be without keep-alives :( > > Thanks, Phil > > ----- On 18 Jun, 2015, at 13:38, Lukas Tribus luky...@hotmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >> >> >>> Hello all: >>> >>> we are rolling out a new system and are testing the SSL performance with >>> some strange results. This is all being performed on a cloud hypervisor >>> instance with the following: >> >> You are saying nginx listens on 443 (SSL) and 80, and you connect to those >> ports directly from ab. Where in that picture is haproxy? >> >> >> >>> Have tried adding the option prefer-last-server but that did not make a >>> great deal of difference. Any thoughts please as to what could be wrong ? >> >> Without keepalive it won't make any difference. Enable keepalive with ab >> (-k). >> >> >> >> Lukas > > (null) >
