I would be interested in hearing about this possibility too, however in my case HTTP is okay. I will be in a similar multi-datacenter HA situation soon and something like this would be very cool.
-Joe On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:22:58 -0700 Chris Goffinet <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has considered or if its possible (am I > missing something?) to do connection pooling in haproxy for TCP > backends? We've been using haproxy internally at Digg and it's > working out really well. Before joining Digg, at Yahoo we had > something very similar to haproxy, that supported connection pooling. > The general idea is that once you start running multiple datacenters > with multiple backends, the latency of TCP ACK between those > datacenters really matters when failures start occurring and you need > high availability and failover of backend services. > > The majority of our services are TCP based, not HTTP so keep alive > is out. I was wondering if this has ever been considered or possible > today? I can't find much info in the open source world regarding > doing such things, and thought I'd ask here. > > -Chris > -- Name: Joseph A. Williams Email: [email protected] Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/
