Hi Xie, You can load-balance your HAProxy servers using basic layer 4 load-balancers, like LVS. Otherwise, you could use as well ECMP protocol at your network layer.
Baptiste On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Xie Qingshan <[email protected]> wrote: > Godbach, > Thanks for your quick reply and suggestions. > To enable multi-process mode can scale on a single node but limited by > the bandwidth of the host Network Interface. Could HAProxy be scaled > horizontally, or HAProxy scale to multi-nodes instead of multi-process? > > Q.Xie > > 在 13-12-6 上午1:24， "Godbach" <[email protected]> 写入: > >>On 2013/12/6 14:00, Qingshan Xie wrote: >>> Hello Experts, >>> not sure if this subject was already discussed or not, like to hear the >>> advices and suggestions. >>> If a single HAProxy instance as a load-balancer could not handle the >>> high-load traffic, how to scale multiple instances as a group of >>> load-balancers to handle the high-load? >>> >>> Thanks, Q.Xie >>Hi, >> >>You can enable multi-process mode for HAProxy by setting nbproc. The >>description of nbproc is as below: >> >>nbproc <number> >>Creates <number> processes when going daemon. This requires the "daemon" >>mode. By default, only one process is created, which is the recommended >>mode of operation. For systems limited to small sets of file descriptors >>per process, it may be needed to fork multiple daemons. USING MULTIPLE >>PROCESSES IS HARDER TO DEBUG AND IS REALLY DISCOURAGED. See also "daemon". >> >>-- >>Best Regards, >>Godbach > > >
