From owner-freebsd-cluster Fri Dec 7 2:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from stinky.akitanet.co.uk (akita-14.dsl.easynet.co.uk [217.206.114.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9803337B405 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:50:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by stinky.akitanet.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fB6HclQ01428; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:38:47 GMT (envelope-from paul) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Paul Robinson To: Dustin Puryear , freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fail-over, and load balancing Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:38:47 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20011207072614.24182.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net> In-Reply-To: <20011207072614.24182.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01120617384702.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 07 December 2001 7:26 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Are there existing solutions? I did a search of freebsd-cluster with the > phrase "load balancing" and came up a bit short on information. (The > archives for freebsd-questions wasn't searchable for some reason.) Any tips > or leads on this? To be honest, for what you want, looking around the freebsd-isp archives is going to yield more. As far as solutions go, yes, there are some available. There is a commercial product - PolyServe's Local Cluster stuff, and their high availability stuff is all supposed to be reasonable. There is also a shedload of free solutions, at least one of which was mentioned on one of the 20-odd lists I'm on at the moment that is built on PicoBSD. I can't find the docs on that atm, but if I do, I'll send them on. > I recently worked with Linux and LVS (on a Red Hat High Availability > Service cluster), and that type of setup would be ideal. (Alas, changing to > LVS is also not an option.) Just an example of what would be really nice to > have in terms of features for the solution. :) Well, -cluster probably isn't the right place. This is a quiet list, and most people here tend to be running their insane pieces of code over something like PVM or some-such - i.e. large scientific applications that need parallelism rather than HA/Load balancing. -- Paul Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message