Hi Scott, please share your HTTP configuration. Are you working with 3.10.1?
Also, you can inspect the /var/log/messages searching for some system errors when the connections reach the limits. Kind Regards. Laura Garcia Zen Load Balancer Team www.zenloadbalancer.com On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Scott Berry <sc...@boompayments.com> wrote: > I assume we are running in to some limitation on max connections although > I can’t find any documentation on Zen or on Pound that discusses this. > > We are load balancing a Magento store. Originally I had two farms, one for > HTTP and one for HTTPS. Offloading SSL was one of the major goals. > > We did a soft launch and found that at around 200-400 connections on the > HTTP farm the response time slowed to a crawl. None of the servers (Zen, > App or DB) had much load at all. After banging my head around for a while I > switched to a L4XNAT profile (after reading a post somewhere about a > clustered Zen setup - front–end L4XNAT and then back-end HTTP Zen farms) > and that seemed to solve the problem. > > So question being firstly, why the limitation and what is causing it? > Resources were never an issue at all. > > I am ok with keeping the L4XNAT profile for the HTTP side of things but > then what happens when the HTTPS farm starts needing that kind of > connection size? I would rather not deal with SSL on each server, but if > that is the end result I will. I just can’t see how 400 connections should > be a limitation? > > Secondly, how now would I handle a redirect in Zen? I would like to get > people off the root and on to WWW and would rather not have to let the > traffic pass all the way back to the app servers before we do that. Almost > every first time connection will be this way. Since I can’t use HTTP farms > I can use the virtual host and redirect options. I suppose the only way is > to have a dedicated IP for www and for root and use another farm just for > redirection. But again I worry about connections… will that then end up > with connection limitations? Or not because it is just redirect and done? > > Any input? > > *- - - - -* > *Scott Berry* > Lead Developer | Boom! Payments > m: 1.661.478.7144 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Zenloadbalancer-support mailing list > Zenloadbalancer-support@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zenloadbalancer-support > >
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