On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 10:20 AM, Hans Juergen von Lengerke wrote: > We are currently using squid set up as a reverse proxy to accelerate > several heavy backends (mod_perl, etc) and to protect them from slow > client connections. > > I am looking into replacing the squid with apache+mod_proxy. Why? > Because ultimately I'd like to be able to cluster the frontend using > mod_backhand + wackamole. The primary reason for clustering isn't for > load-balancing (yet) but for failover handling. So, ideally, one machine > should be enough to serve the whole server load.
wackamole and mod_backhand are completely independent. If you are happy with Squid, just use wackamole and Squid. If you are set on trying use Apache, try the lingerd patch and set the TCP send and receive buffers high. If you are doing 80 hits/s and want to use mod_backhand, then you will most likely want to put BackhandConnectionPool off. -- Theo Schlossnagle Principal Consultant OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. -- http://www.omniti.com/ Phone: +1 301 776 6376 Fax: +1 410 880 4879 1024D/82844984/95FD 30F1 489E 4613 F22E 491A 7E88 364C 8284 4984 2047R/33131B65/71 F7 95 64 49 76 5D BA 3D 90 B9 9F BE 27 24 E7
