Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
André Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now I have 2 Perlbals balancing requests to 4 apache backends. I'm very happy with Perlbal's load balancing capabilities so I'm looking for the best way to integrate varnish with this Perlbal + Apache configuration. Which should come first in the

Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread André Cruz
Ok, I'll try it both ways to test. And regarding my other question... Should Perlbal handle the request first, and pass it to some varnish process or should varnish process the request first and send only the misses to PerlBal+Apache? Perlbal is probably better at load-balancing since it is

Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
André Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And regarding my other question... Should Perlbal handle the request first, and pass it to some varnish process or should varnish process the request first and send only the misses to PerlBal+Apache? Isn't that really the same question? Either you run

Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread Denis Brækhus
- André Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll try it both ways to test. And regarding my other question... Should Perlbal handle the request first, and pass it to some varnish process or should varnish process the request first and send only the misses to PerlBal+Apache?

Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread André Cruz
On 2007/07/02, at 14:59, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: André Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And regarding my other question... Should Perlbal handle the request first, and pass it to some varnish process or should varnish process the request first and send only the misses to PerlBal+Apache?

Re: Varnish and Perlbal

2007-07-02 Thread André Cruz
On 2007/07/02, at 15:00, Denis Brækhus wrote: André, If we can assume one of the reasons you want to use Perlbal is to achieve some sort of failover capability, I would say place Perlbal in front of Varnish. If you have another provision to handle that and you only want to improve