>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fred> Can you explain a bit more why using keep-alives to the backend is not Fred> a good thing? I've always been under the impression from conference Fred> lectures and literature that turning keep-alives on for the app server Fred> is something you should do to reduce the overhead of creating new tcp Fred> connections to the proxy server. Imagine wanting to have 50 fronts and 10 backs. If you use keep alives, that'll end up being 50 fronts and 50 backs. The overhead of reconnecting shouldn't be much of an issue here, because your front and back machines are probably very close together, and the cost of lookup and reverse lookup shouldn't be much. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
