On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 6:22 AM Marc Serra <mse...@manxa.net> wrote: > I got better performance without the load balancer. >
> Results when I run 'ab -k -n 10000 -c 1000 > http://vm_host_ip_address:8010/' with no balancer... > Requests per second: 416.16 [#/sec] (mean) > Transfer rate: 35391.87 [Kbytes/sec] received > > Results when I run 'ab -k -n 10000 -c 1000 > http://vm_host_ip_address:8010/' with balancer configured... > Requests per second: 644.04 [#/sec] (mean) > Transfer rate: 56155.42 [Kbytes/sec] received > It doesn't look like the no-proxy case did better. Which metric were you looking at? + a few cautions: - If you aren't taxing the system beyond what a single backend could handle, it can easily be slower by adding a proxy. - A layer 7 proxy can easily be more overhead than a basic VIP / LB / IP sprayer if there's nothing actually being offloaded in the proxy.
