Dedicated device = ?? What type of applications are running on server 1 & server 2? Sticky sessions being used? Explain a little more of your configuration. You should also be able to get a feeling for the distribution of the requests by using balancer-manager benji Benji Spencer System Administrator Moody Bible Institute Phone: 312-329-2288 Fax: 312-329-8961 > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gilles Ganault > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:53 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [A2/Load balancing] mod_proxy vs. dedicated box? > > Hello > > I'd like some feedback about using Apache's mod_proxy to provide load > balancing with other Apache2 servers vs. using a dedicated device. > > At this point, our first Apache2 server, acting as load balancer, is > 50% idle, while the other Apache2 server is 0% idle: > > --- Apache #1 (includes load balancer to forward connections to Apache > #2) > top - 19:35:21 up 26 days, 2:21, 3 users, load average: 165.76, > 163.97, 200.46 > Tasks: 829 total, 155 running, 673 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 36.3%us, 10.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 47.2%id, 5.1%wa, 0.1%hi, 1.0%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 2070172k total, 1978392k used, 91780k free, 48016k > buffers > Swap: 998376k total, 244336k used, 754040k free, 518996k > cached > > --- Apache #2 > top - 19:33:46 up 21 days, 3:23, 3 users, load average: 511.90, > 468.51, 351.50 > Tasks: 1325 total, 105 running, 1219 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 28.5%us, 65.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 1.1%hi, 5.4%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 2061660k total, 2012144k used, 49516k free, 2084k > buffers > Swap: 922600k total, 430876k used, 491724k free, 104796k > cached > > Any idea to explain this imbalance? Should we get better performance > with a dedicated box? > > Thank you. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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