Hi Folks
Here's a post I captured some time in the distant past:
o Balance
<http://balance.sf.net/> and Pound
<http://www.apsis.ch/pound/index.html>.
I tried Balance first since it
was written in C, had a small
footprint, and had very few features (it's
only a tcp proxy with
round robin balancing and fail over). For the last
month, I've used
it successfully with intense loads and I've been
perfectly happy with
it. On a 1GHz Athlon (no doubt overkill), I can
sustain hundreds of
connections and many megabits of throughput without
appreciable
latency or cpu load. I use it to proxy http and https
connections
flawlessly. To top it off, it compiled and was usable within
a few
minutes. Reading the documentation took less time than the compile
and configuring it was even quicker at that. As a C programmer, I
appreciated the source code and was satisfied with the competence of
the
authors (the munich.net folks).
I'm planning on putting
Pound through the paces also but since Balance
works so well for
exactly what I need I'm not terribly motivated. Pound
has many more
features and seems comparable to the Arrowpoint systems we
use for
load balancing and fail over in our production environment. So
maybe
someday I'll have a Pound v. Arrowpoint showdown.
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Sorry, author unknown at this point in time.
--
Ron
Savage
http://savage.net.au/index.html
