Thanks for the reply, Steven. I think we are looking at a 2-arm NAT mode, but I'm not certain yet.
We do expect to handle a lot of sessions. From what I've read on the HAProxy site, 108,000 connections/second is the current record for a single HAProxy instance. As I understand it, that's limited by the NIC. But will 8-16 GB of RAM allow us to get the most out of our server? Or should we look at a lot more? Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Steven Le Roux [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:28 AM To: Daniel Wilson Cc: haproxy Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations for HAProxy on large-scale site Hi, Multicore would be certainly not wasted since you could bind NICs IRQ on some core and haproxy on others. 1 or 2 NIC depends on your architecture. Are you one arm mode ? two arm ? For RAM, will your service need many session handling ? Even for hardware it's really a per infra/service configuration. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Daniel Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > What resources should we look to maximize when building a server to > get the most out of HAProxy? I read in some forums that more than a > 2-core processor would be wasted on HAProxy. Is that true? Should we > get the most RAM we can (e.g. 100+ GB)? Or would some other resource > saturate much faster? Perhaps the NICs? Speaking of NICs, what do you > recommend? I’m looking at 10 Gbps NIC’s, but should I look at 2? Or > more? Any particular brand well-proven? Or any to avoid? > > > > Thanks for the help! > > > > Daniel Wilson > > Lead Software Developer > > The eWhiteboard Company > > -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : [email protected] 0x39494CCB <[email protected]> 2FF7 226B 552E 4709 03F0 6281 72D7 A010 3949 4CCB
