Re: Expected haproxy performance inside a VMWare instance

Hi all

We use haproxy in a vm on top of vmware server to load balance RDP traffic for 70 users and it's working great

it's using 2-3 % CPU on dual quad core Dell 2950 server

All our users go through the RDP load balancer for all there applications ( IE, outllook and corporate APPS) and find it fast enough. but it's not a very big setup.

Bye

Patrick Viet a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM, lists <lists#loadbalancer.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Is this an expected result? same test results on 64bit and 32bit
>> VMs/hardware
>> Any performance advise on VM platform?
>>
>
> Most of the job of a load balancer is done on the network and the system.
> All the network job is rewritten by virtualization, so is most of the
> system work (ie. syscall interception = double execution :
> catch/rewrite, execute + other network overhead).
> Therefore it is perfectly normal that your performance in a VM is bad.
>
> I advise that you don't use haproxy (or any load balancer) in a VM if
> you need any high performance.
> This can't be helped, it's about how a VM works.
>
> Patrick
>
>

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