Re: Load Balancing Connections

Rob Clews <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:55:35 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.mod-backhand.general
Organization	Klear Systems
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 13:49, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 08:11 US/Eastern, Rob Clews wrote:
> > Is there a way of using mod_backhand so that the clients do not leave a
> > connection on the load balancer?
> 
> On Linux and FreeBSD you can use sysctl to modify the appropriate tcp 
> timeouts in the kernel's TCP/IP stack.

Yeah, this is what I've used in the past, how do other people overcome this problem with a huge amount of requests? Or is it due to the load balancer being broken? I'm using FreeBSD btw.

Cheers
Rob Clews