Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2013-02-07 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:34:43AM -0500, S Ahmed wrote: > Thanks Willy. > > On the same note you said not to run anything on the same machine, to lower > costs I want to run other things on the haproxy front-end load balancer. > > What are the critical things to watch for on the server so I can

Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2013-02-07 Thread S Ahmed
Thanks Willy. On the same note you said not to run anything on the same machine, to lower costs I want to run other things on the haproxy front-end load balancer. What are the critical things to watch for on the server so I can be notified at what point having 2 things on the server are becoming

Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2012-12-04 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 02:19:30PM -0500, S Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > > So 500 Mbits is 1/2 usage of a 1 Gbps port (haproxy and the back-end > servers will have 1 Gbps connections). No, the traffic goes in opposite directions and the link is full duplex, so you can effectively have 1 Gbps in and 1 Gbp

Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2012-05-04 Thread Baptiste
Using multiplication: 1500 req/s * 20KBytes * 8 (bits in a Bytes) = 2,4 * 10^8, which is around 250 Mbits for one way. This traffic is the traffic from the clients to HAProxy, so you'll have it twice, since you'll have the same from HAProxy to the servers. So in total, around 500 Mbits. cheers O

Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2012-05-04 Thread S Ahmed
how can I calculate if this will work in theory? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Baptiste wrote: > Hi, > > You'll need one gig interface (two looks better, one for the frontend > and one for the backend servers), but it should work without any > issues. > > cheers > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35

Re: could a single ha proxy server sustain 1500 requests per second

2012-05-03 Thread Baptiste
Hi, You'll need one gig interface (two looks better, one for the frontend and one for the backend servers), but it should work without any issues. cheers On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > I have a service where people will be http posting documents that will be 20 > KB in size. >