Comments on: Evaluating proxy engines and load balancers for mongrel-driven ruby on rails applications: an introduction and an open call http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/ Joyent's Weblog Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Yeh http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-719 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:52:37 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-719 Just out of curiosity, do you do anything to monitor the end-user response time? How would you measure the impact of the acceleration features on the BIG-IPs? I’d really like to know.

]]> By: Joe http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-718 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:21:35 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-718 Come on… anything?

]]> By: Joe http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-717 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:41:36 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-717 Any news on this?

]]> By: Malcolm Turnbull http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-716 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:26 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-716 We’d be happy to loan you one of our LVS based load balancer appliances(RRP $2,795)for the test, we’d love to rough up Zeus’s ZXTM in public and our EULA definately allows benchmarking :-) .We also recommend Direct Routing or DSR for the best performance.Or is this a proxy only test?Product details here: http://www.loadbalancer.org/

]]> By: Owen Garrett http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-715 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:35:37 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-715 Good luck with the benchmark. We’d be glad to support you in this – please get in touch. There are a number of performance and app acceleration papers published at http://www.zeus.com/news/white_papers.

For the record, the ZXTM software starts at less $6K (for the ZXTM LB version, 4 IPs), so the entry level is a lot less than $35K.

Strictly speaking, publishing benchmark figures is against our EULA, but we readily negotiate exemptions. The clause is just to avoid bad information from incorrectly run benchmarks (yes, they do happen!).

]]> By: Bjørn Johansen http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-714 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:08:21 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-714 Varnish is a brand new open source reverse proxy funded by norway’s largest newspaper “VG”. It made them replace 8 servers running squid with one server running Varnish. Actually the hardware running Varnish is second-hand, costed them ~US$1500 and is serving 10,000 req/sec at half load.

It is using kernel features from either FreeBSD or Linux 2.6, so you might be out of luck on SunOS.

]]> By: Jason Hoffman http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-713 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:53:41 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-713 Perfect. Thank you Willy.

]]> By: Willy Tarreau http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-712 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:15:52 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-712 Being the author of HAProxy , I’m interested in this test. I can provide help on the tuning if needed, and I suggest playing with the congestion control mechanism which can in fact improve performance even on a single server and reduce overall response time.

]]> By: alex http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-711 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:42:12 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-711 a litte off topic butwe use two dell server with ubuntu server, lvs and keepalived for our mail cluster.

keepalive does ha for the loadbalancer and monitoring the cluster nodes. it works nice and the configuration is done in only one file.

for the postfix nodes we use freebsd and the two mysql server again with ubuntu server.

the storage is a ibm n3700 A20 (same as netapp fas270) dual head.

lvs and keepalive is a realy nice combination, you can even sync your connections with the hot standby loadbalancer.

]]> By: Jason Hoffman http://joyeur.com/2006/08/29/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-710 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:18:21 +0000 http://joycomad.joyent.us/blog/uncategorized/evaluating-proxy-engines-and-load-balancers-for-mongrel-driven-ruby-on-rails-applications-an-introduction-and-an-open-call/#comment-710 Hi François: Yes it’s on the list and will be part of it.

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