On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is actually IPVS aka LVS that handles connections and not ldirectord. > If you have reasonably modern hardware then the limitation is likely to be > the gigabit network and not LVS. And the limitation is likely to be > packets (or perhaps connections) per second, not the number of > simultaneous connections. > > > The only real limit on the number of simultaneous connections is memory, > as each one requires something like 128 bytes of kernel memory. So if > you had 2,000,000 of them, then they would be taking up in the order of > 256Mb of memory. Which is a very large number of connections in what > is not really that much memory. > > -- > Horms >
I would say this is something I don't need to worry about for the foreseeable future! If necessary, I will just add an A record to DNS as previously suggested. Thanks a lot for this information and the DNS idea. Randy _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
