There's a load balancing configuration known as direct server return
(DSR), in which packets pass from the client through the load balancer to
the server, but then the replies from the server go directly to the client
(bypassing the load balancer). The way this works is that the load
balancer
H and should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on
by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. Setting
malloc.conf to aj makes it work like it does in 4.*.
Here are some benchmarks to illustrate that, using ubench (from
/usr/ports/benchmarks) on a dual