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On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:05 pm, Tony VanScoy wrote: |
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> I just embarked on the ability to distribute compilation over a network |
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> of machines using distcc. I've always known about this capability but I |
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> didn't think I'd have the hardware/software/money to do something like |
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> that. distcc to the rescue. |
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> The reason I covered that is because I share the same interest in load |
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> balancing some of my web servers as I do distributed compilation. But |
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> can load balancing web servers be as simple as distcc? I don't think |
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> so. I mean quite a bit more would have to go into somthing like this |
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> right? Can anyone give me some pointers?? |
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It could be as simple as using a round robin DNS entry. While considered a |
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poor mans load balance, it has worked quite well for me in the past. I've |
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banaced two web servers, and they both run about 80Mbps at its peak. You |
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could double entry one host, and send it traffic twice as often (in theory) |
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to account for different types of machines. It doesnt take load into |
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consideration, and it not the best way to balance, but it works. |
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Also, you could use hardware to do it. You would have an external IP, then |
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create a nat enviroment for the servers. OpenBSD kernel |
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html |
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is good at this, and provides a _very_ good enviroment. You can do the same |
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in linux, its all your taste. I prefer OpenBSD for dedicated network |
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applications, but I don't use it for anything that is not directly |
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intergrated (i.e web servers themselves). |
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Cisco has some nice hardware balancers, and there are a few projects in linux |
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to do HA clustering. I'll toss these 2 cents in the pool, and let others add |
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;) |
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Rob |
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