RE: Hardware recommendations for HAProxy on large-scale site

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Wilson
it, that's limited by the NIC. But will 8-16 GB of RAM allow us to get the most out of our server? Or should we look at a lot more? Daniel -Original Message- From: Steven Le Roux [mailto:ste...@le-roux.info] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:28 AM To: Daniel Wilson Cc: haproxy Subjec

Re: Hardware recommendations for HAProxy on large-scale site

2014-01-10 Thread Steven Le Roux
Hi, Multicore would be certainly not wasted since you could bind NICs IRQ on some core and haproxy on others. 1 or 2 NIC depends on your architecture. Are you one arm mode ? two arm ? For RAM, will your service need many session handling ? Even for hardware it's really a per infra/service config

Hardware recommendations for HAProxy on large-scale site

2014-01-09 Thread Daniel Wilson
What resources should we look to maximize when building a server to get the most out of HAProxy? I read in some forums that more than a 2-core processor would be wasted on HAProxy. Is that true? Should we get the most RAM we can (e.g. 100+ GB)? Or would some other resource saturate much faster?

Re: Hardware recommendations

2010-04-28 Thread Holger Just
On 2010-04-28 19:10, Alex Forrow wrote: > We're looking to upgrade our HAProxy hardware soon. Does anyone have any > recommendations on the things we should be looking for? e.g. Are there > any NICs we should use/avoid? Hi Alex, I'm just writing down here what comes to my mind. Sorry if it looks

Hardware recommendations

2010-04-28 Thread Alex Forrow
Hi, We're looking to upgrade our HAProxy hardware soon. Does anyone have any recommendations on the things we should be looking for? e.g. Are there any NICs we should use/avoid? Our site primarily serves lots of small objects. Kind regards, Alex