Re: recommended server pool manager

[Rob <ipvsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 16:47 +0100, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> >
> > > What are the experiences with server pool managers around here?
> > > Which ones are currently known to work best?
> > >         keepalived?
> > >         ldirectord?
> > >         Other?
> > Both are very good.
> > Ldirectord is very good and easy(ish) to understand...
> > Keepalived is more ambitious... never used it myself but I've heard very 
> > good things...
>
> My main problem is that the previous guy who managed this system decided
> to make his own pool manager with some shell scripts and crontab.
>
> The obvious problem is the 1m minimum period, which is causing us
> problems.
>
> Since it's a _live_ environment, and extremely critical for us, I'm wary
> of testing like that. I could really use a few opinions on which is
> better and faster at managing pools.
>
> Thanks, Rui
Hi,

One place I was at recently used mon with tests running at 10 second intervals.

http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
The archives don't seem to be working right now.

Rob