[Openstack] Load Balancers for Swift Proxy-servers ----why Pound ?

2011-09-19 Thread Kuo Hugo
Hello , Stackers I'm interesting about the reason of Pound as SLB(software Load balance) in Swift docs. Most articles talk about the performance of SLB , and Nginx seems the winner of SLB battle . Lower CPU usage / lots of connections etc Does Pound has better performance for Swift ? And if

Re: [Openstack] Load Balancers for Swift Proxy-servers ----why Pound ?

2011-09-19 Thread Chuck Thier
Howdy, In general Nginx is really good, and we like it a lot, but it has one design flaw that causes it to not work well with swift. Nginx spools all requests, so if you are getting a lot large (say 5GB) uploads, it can be problematic. In our testing a while ago, Pound proved to have the best

Re: [Openstack] Load Balancers for Swift Proxy-servers ----why Pound ?

2011-09-19 Thread Jay Pipes
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Kuo Hugo tonyt...@gmail.com wrote: btw , most of articles just using HTTP instead of HTTPS.   Does Pound better than Nginx under HTTPS? FYI, some folks have done some performance testing of Glance with Swift backends. It was determined that using SSL caused a

Re: [Openstack] Load Balancers for Swift Proxy-servers ----why Pound ?

2011-09-19 Thread Reddin, Tim (Cloud Services)
: openstack-bounces+tim.reddin=hp@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.reddin=hp@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes Sent: 19 September 2011 16:39 To: Kuo Hugo Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Load Balancers for Swift Proxy-servers why Pound