[140713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experience with Open Source load balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matthew zeier)
Wed May 18 13:26:28 2011
From: matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:25:26 -0700
To: Hammer <bhmccie@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> =20
> Recommend: F5 and Citrix Netscaler. If you are looking to combine your =
L7 FW into your LB then you might lean towards NetScaler. If you are =
looking at seperating those duties you can look at F5. IRules (F5) are =
the bomb.
Except that under (Mozilla) load, Netscaler fell apart. F5, at the =
time, could not handle the logging rate I required. Mozilla load is =
typically defined as high connection rate, low traffic per connection =
and mostly all SSL. =20
During the Firefox 4 release, we peaked globally at 12Gbps, a =
significant portion of which was pushed out of three Zeus clusters with =
L7 rules and some non-trivial traffic script rules and a heck of a lot =
of content caching. Of all the systems seeing increased usage during =
the Fx4 release, this wasn't where my worries were :)
A slightly older post,
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http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2008/12/04/load-balancer-performance-issues-fx=
feedsmozillaorg-versioncheck/
