[SGVLUG] Software-Based Load Balancer?

[Kev Lee]

no, how does dat work?

--- Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 4/4/06, sean at seanodonnell.com
> <sean at seanodonnell.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anyone tried any software-based Load
> Balancers?
> >
> > My web server (@ home) has been running pretty
> sluggish for the past few days,
> > and it appears to be a RAM issue...
> >
> > Mem:    515444k total,   510692k used,     4752k
> free,     3468k buffers
> >
> > I've optimized all running (server application)
> processes to the minimal of my
> > requirements, but it's still at < 5000k/free, so
> I'll be adding another 512mb
> > stick to relieve the suffering for now.
> >
> > I'd (ideally) like to setup a (poor-man's)
> load-balanced environment, but I have
> > to do more research before I go mangling my
> network infrastructure.
> >
> > I found the following project, but have never
> heard of anyone using it (or any
> > other software-based load balancers for that
> matter), so I wasn't sure if I
> > should consider it or not...
> >
> > Pure Load Balancer - A free high-performance
> (software-based) load balancer for
> > Unix. http://plb.sunsite.dk/
> 
> Never heard of it.
> 
> > I've heard good and bad (some even horror) stories
> about software-RAID, so I was
> > curious as to the pros/cons of using a
> software-based Load Balancer for Apache.
> 
> Linux software raid is alot of times faster then
> hardware raid. Works
> great for me.
> 
> > Anyone have any input to share?
> 
> LVS (www.linuxvirtualserver.org) which is pretty
> mature.
> 


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