Re: Scalability

[Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, S Ashok Kumar wrote:

> How many simultaneous ipvs sessions can
> a P-III with 512MB RAM running RedHat 6.1 handle? 

Are you really interested in the number of sessions, or the amount
of throughput that can be handled by LVS?

The number of sessions is handled by user configurable variables
in the kernel.

The amount of throughput in VS-DR mode is limited by the network
layer. 

In neither case is LVS limiting.

Joe

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