Re: Running multiple haproxy instances to use multiple cores efficiently

2014-10-29 Thread Baptiste
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chris Allen ch...@cjx.com wrote: We're running haproxy on a 2x4 core Intel E5-2609 box. At present haproxy is running on a single core and saturating that core at about 15,000 requests per second. Our application has four distinct front-ends (listening on four

Re: Running multiple haproxy instances to use multiple cores efficiently

2014-10-29 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 29 October 2014 08:52, Baptiste bed...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chris Allen ch...@cjx.com wrote: We're running haproxy on a 2x4 core Intel E5-2609 box. At present haproxy is running on a single core and saturating that core at about 15,000 requests per second.

Re: Running multiple haproxy instances to use multiple cores efficiently

2014-10-29 Thread Baptiste
If a backend is used only by 1 FE and that FE is bound to a certain CPU(s), do we still need to bind the backend to the same CPU(s) set ? Cheers, Pavlos Yes, this is a requirement and will be performed by HAProxy automatically. Baptiste

Re: Running multiple haproxy instances to use multiple cores efficiently

2014-10-29 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 29 October 2014 13:49, Baptiste bed...@gmail.com wrote: If a backend is used only by 1 FE and that FE is bound to a certain CPU(s), do we still need to bind the backend to the same CPU(s) set ? Cheers, Pavlos Yes, this is a requirement and will be performed by HAProxy

Re: Running multiple haproxy instances to use multiple cores efficiently

2014-10-28 Thread Conrad Hoffmann
Hey Chris, we've been running haproxy with nbproc 12 for quite a while now and it works great for us. We haven't even gotten around to tying interrupts to certain cores, works pretty well without. No need for multiple config files either. Cheers, Conrad On 10/27/2014 07:41 PM, Chris Allen