Re: clustering and load balancing Apache

[Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sergej Kandyla wrote:
> apache is good as backend server for dynamic applications.
> You could use something like nginx, haproxy as frontend for balancing 
> multiple backend servers.
> I'm using nginx. This light web server could serve many thousand 
> concurrent connections! It works great!

In addition to the user-space solutions mentioned above, there are also 
kernel-level solutions, such as Linux Virtual Server, or LVS:

http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

I am under the impression that, speaking in general, user-space 
balancers provide more features (are smarter), while the kernel-space 
ones are faster (provide more in terms of raw speed and max load). I 
could be wrong.

Can anybody provide a performance comparison between, say, nginx and 
LVS? (max connections, max new connections rate, max bandwidth, max 
packets per second, etc.)

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/
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