RE: Connection limiting & Sorry servers

2009-08-27 Thread Boštjan Merčun
Hi John, Willy, On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 10:07 -0400, John Lauro wrote: > Do you have haproxy between your web servers and the 3rd party? If not (ie: > only to your servers), perhaps that is what you should do. Trying to > throttle the maximum connections to your web servers sounds pointless give

Re: Connection limiting & Sorry servers

2009-08-10 Thread Boštjan Merčun
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 18:26 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:52:50PM +0200, Bo??tjan Mer??un wrote: > > Hi Willy > > > > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:21 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > > why are you saying that ? Except for rare cases of huge bugs, a server > > > is not li

Re: Connection limiting & Sorry servers

2009-08-05 Thread Boštjan Merčun
Hi Willy On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:21 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > why are you saying that ? Except for rare cases of huge bugs, a server > is not limited in requests per second. At full speed, it will simply use > 100% of the CPU, which is why you bought it after all. When a server dies, > it's

Re: Connection limiting & Sorry servers

2009-08-02 Thread Boštjan Merčun
Hi Willy. First, thank you for your answer. > I really don't know why you're limiting on the number of requests > per second. It is not the proper way to do this at all. In fact, > you should *only* need to play with the server's maxconn parameter, > as there should be no reason your servers woul

Connection limiting & Sorry servers

2009-07-31 Thread Boštjan Merčun
Dear haproxy list, This message will be a bit longer, I hope that somebody will read it though and give me some opinion. I am testing HAProxy in our load-balanced environment, which now works with keepalived and the main reason for trying HAProxy is connection limiting and ACL, which keepalived do