Re: slow responses from haproxied realservers

From: Hugo Silva <hugo#barafranca.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:45:45 +0100

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Patrick Viet wrote:
>

>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Willy Tarreau <w#1wt.eu> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I don't see your point. If a browser has to send 60 requests on a page, it
>>> only depends on the application, the LB cannot lower that number. Maybe
>>> you should install a reverse cache to relieve your servers (anyone tried
>>> varnish ?).
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have the most horrible experience with varnish.
>> Not only it has no proper documentation, but it also crashes in a completely
>> random way (answers half of the requests), just like BIND as a cache
>> nameserver in a high volume setup does...
>>
>> I lost a customer over using varnish... And nearly lost another one.
>>     
>

> Oh bad :-(

>

> was it a recent version ? I'm asking because I've already seen some
> benchmarks showing very good results compared to squid. But a benchmark
> does not indicate reliability...

>

>

>> Patrick
>>     
>

> Thanks for the info anyway,
> Willy

>
>

>

FWIW, I've been using varnish for months on FreeBSD 7.0/amd64 without any significant problems.

Best regards,

Hugo Received on 2008/04/18 01:45