Wade,
We use pfSense to load balance connections to our content filtering
database. Daily we get approximately 40 million connections with a peak
rate of close to 3Mb/s to a pool of 20 servers and our application
requires latency to be very minimal. Up until recently we ran that
using 1.2Ghz celeron boxes and they were perfectly capable of handling
the load. Your bottleneck will be your server pool's ability to process
the connections before you ever start reaching the abilities of the load
balancers to handle the traffic.
-Gary
Wade Blackwell wrote:
Good afternoon PFsense fans,
Greetings from the sunny central cost of California. I am
currently pricing out several load balancer solutions. The
requirements are pretty basic;
-Redundancy (CARP)
-Sticky
-intelligent load balancing of TCP services (fail a load balanced
node/server out of the pool when the service fails)
-ability to manually pull nodes out of the pool for maintenance
without affecting customers
So I know that PF supports all of these requirements and is a
good inexpensive candidate for the project. What I am now trying to
get a handle on is what can I expect for connections/sec? The proposed
hw platform for the PF's is;
CPU: Intel Pentium E2140 Dual-Core 1.60GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 800MHz LGA775
RAM: 1GB (2 x 512MB) Unbuffered ECC DDR2-667
NIC: Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps NICs (Intel 82573L + 82573V) - Integrated
PCIe x8: Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter - 2 x GbE (RJ45) - PCIe x4
Fixed Drive - 1: 160GB Western Digital RE (3.0Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 16MB Cache) SATA
Anyone on the list have some benchmarks they could pass along? TIA.
-W
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