On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Steven Lembark wrote: > -- Hemant Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I am planning to host an application and its size is going to be big one > > , so expect the concurrent number of connection s to be around 2200.To > > combat the same , want to perform load sharing on 3-4 servers.So the ide > > is to put one machine on external IP and this machine , after receiving > > the requests would forward them to any of the other three machines having > > the application deployed and running on the same environment.Pls suggest > > how can i achieve this on apache. > > Randal Schwartz had a good article on this about a year > ago. You can use the re-write phase to balance the load > w/in Apache if you want to. Alternatives include round- > robin DNS and separate load balancing software.
I don't think that frontend mod_perl can handle 2200 concurrent connections. The plain Apache with mod_proxy/mod_accel can handle them with about 1.5G memory. Igor Sysoev
