Re: load balancing

Javier Gostling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Herald van der Breggen wrote:

> Javier Gostling wrote:
> > It seems to me that the best solution would be to have every machine
> > run tux as well as apache (or another back-end web server), and do
> > simple network load balancing with either a Layer 4 switch or a LVS.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion!
> 
> Yes, I thought of that and that is of course possible. 
> 
> The thing is we have about 250Gb static content. Not something that I
> would like to copy to every server. And keep in sync. Maybe NFS can help
> us out, though nfs can slow tux down.....

Maybe keeping the content sync'd with rsync would help. Slow for initial
setup, but fast afterwards.

Another possibility would be to try a shared storage device (shared
SCSI or Fiber Channel) with a shared filesystem on top (like Sistina's
GFS).

Cheers,
-- 
Javier Gostling
Ingeniero de Sistemas
Virtualia S.A.
[email protected]
Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130
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