Hi Pavlos, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to drop a note and mention that http-reuse works very well > for us: > > % ss -t state established '( sport = :http )'|wc -l > 2113 > > % ss -t state established '( dport = :http )'| wc -l > 408 > > As, you can see connections established to backend servers are much less > than the connections from clients. In the attached graph you can see > 24-hour pattern doesn't influence that much the number of connections to > backend.
That's really great, thanks for the feedback. Have you tried the other http-reuse options ? while "always" is optimal, strictly speaking it's not very clean if the clients are not always willing to retry a failed first request, and browsers typically fall into that category. A real world case can be a request dequeued to a connection that just closes. Of course this very rarely happens, but "very rarely" is not something your end users will accept when they face it :-) In theory in your case, "aggressive" should do the same as "always", though since you know your applications it will not improve anything. However if "safe" works well enough (even if it causes a few more connections), you should instead use it. If the gains are minimal, then you'll have to compare :-) Oh, last thing, "always" is generally fine when connecting to a static server or a cache because you don't break end-user browsing session in the rare case an error happens. Thanks for the feedback! Willy
