Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932453AbWLSOkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:40:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932573AbWLSOkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:40:00 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1596 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932453AbWLSOkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:40:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:38:41 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Dave Jones , "J.H." , Matti Aarnio , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , kernel list , hpa@zytor.com, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel Message-ID: <20061219143841.GB19084@1wt.eu> References: <20061216094421.416a271e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061216095702.3e6f1d1f.akpm@osdl.org> <458434B0.4090506@oracle.com> <1166297434.26330.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45858B3A.5050804@oracle.com> <20061217223730.GW10054@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <1166402576.26330.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061219064646.GJ24090@1wt.eu> <1166513991.26330.136.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061219143606.GE25461@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061219143606.GE25461@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1548 Lines: 38 On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:36:06AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:39:51PM -0800, J.H. wrote: > > > I'll have to look into it - but by and large the round robining tends to > > work. Specifically as I am writing this the machines are both pushing > > right around 150mbps, however the load on zeus1 is 170 vs. zeus2's 4. > > Also when we peak the bandwidth we do use every last kb we can get our > > hands on, so doing any tunneling takes just that much bandwidth away > > from the total. > > > > Number of Processes running > > process #1 #2 > > ------------------------------------ > > rsync 162 69 > > http 734 642 > > ftp 353 190 > > A wild idea just occured to me. You guys are running Fedora/RHEL kernels > on the kernel.org boxes iirc, which have Ingo's 'tux' httpd accelerator. > It might not make the problem go away, but it could make it more > bearable under high load. Or it might do absolutely squat depending > on the ratio of static/dynamic content. I've already thought about this and never knew why it's not used. It supports both HTTP and FTP and does a wonderful job under high loads. In fact, it's what I use as an HTTP termination during benchmarks, because it's the absolute best performer I've ever found. > Dave Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/