On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Mike MacCana <mike.macc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm investigating active/passive HAProxy setups and came across the > following from the official HAProxy blog. At http://blog.haproxy > .com/2014/01/17/emulating-activepassing-application-clustering-with- > haproxy/ > > backend bk_app > stick-table type ip size 1 nopurge peers LB > > The size of 1 seems odd - given that's saying create a stickiness table > with a maximum size of a single entry, according to > https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.html#stick-table > > <size> is the maximum number of entries that can fit in the table. > This > value directly impacts memory usage. Count approximately > 50 bytes per entry, plus the size of a string if any. The size > supports suffixes "k", "m", "g" for 2^10, 2^20 and 2^30 > factors. > > - Is this a typo, and '1' should be '1k' or '1m' or some other larger > number > - Is this intentional, and there is a reason to have a table with only one > entry? If so could you someone please explain why? > The explanation is in the comments below in the same page: http://blog.haproxy.com/2014/01/17/emulating-activepassing-application-clustering-with-haproxy/#comment-4631 > > Thanks muchly - and thanks for making HAProxy! > > Mike >
