Re: Performance optimization on VMWare VM's

2012-05-02 Thread Sebastian Fohler
Hi, How important is it to assign a specific NIC to the single haproxy vm with physical passthrough? Best regards Sebastian On 16.04.2012 07:01, Baptiste wrote: Hey, You have to reserve resources for the VM. FYI, At exceliance, we were able to go up to 55K rps in a VM on a core i7. You'll

Re: Performance optimization on VMWare VM's

2012-05-02 Thread Baptiste
Hey, If you really need to do that for performance purpose, then you should dedicate a server to your LB... cheers On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Sebastian Fohler i...@far-galaxy.de wrote: Hi, How important is it to assign a specific NIC to the single haproxy vm with physical passthrough?

RE: Performance optimization on VMWare VM's

2012-04-15 Thread Lukas Tribus
Does that mean Sandy/Ivy Bridge based Intel Platforms can't be undoubtedly recommended for high performance usage with haproxy or is there a workaround? What platform would you recommend for a new setup?

Re: Performance optimization on VMWare VM's

2012-04-15 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Lukas Tribus wrote: Does that mean Sandy/Ivy Bridge based Intel Platforms can't be undoubtedly recommended for high performance usage with haproxy or is there a workaround? It's never all white or black. It also depends on the L3 cache latency. My

Re: Performance optimization on VMWare VM's

2012-04-15 Thread Baptiste
Hey, You have to reserve resources for the VM. FYI, At exceliance, we were able to go up to 55K rps in a VM on a core i7. You'll need to tune your sysctl as well. cheers On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Willy Tarreau w...@1wt.eu wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Lukas Tribus