Re: [mv] load balancing?

[macky@staktrading.com]

Hi,

I would like to load balance as well. I have looked at using a linux NAT director
which will give redundancy and security but had the same issue with the session
files. has anyone tried using an NFS mount to share these and tested the
performance? If it is likely to work, I can try it out and let you know if it is
acceptable.
I dont know if MV4 will make this easier (Mike?) but for our application, it is
becomming more critical that we have redundancy and speed. (and an excellent
feature for MV)

Macky..



Ace Kumar wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Ace Kumar <ace@digiknow.com>     ******
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> This is directed to Mike and the more tech-savvy MV users:
>
> Just out of curiosity, can Minivend be "load balanced" over multiple
> servers, using DNS round-robin (meaning, setting up a web site that has
> multiple IP addresses in DNS with a low TTL to balance load across
> multiple machines)?
>
> My main concern would be the session.gdbm file.  I could NFS mount it and
> allow multiple servers to access it, but then I run into NFS
> bottlenecks.   Does MV4 still use a local file for session state, or can
> the session info be stored on an SQL server (which would then be my
> bottleneck, but, IMHO, a smaller one).
>
> Ace
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