Tests performed between a 1 Gbps connected server and a 100 mbps client,
distant by 95ms showed that:
- we need 1.1 MB in flight to fill the link
- rare but inevitable losses are sufficient to make cubic's window
collapse fast and long to recover
- a 100 MB object takes 69s to download
- tolerance for 1 loss between two ACKs suffices to shrink the download
time to 20-22s
- 2 losses go to 17-20s
- 4 losses reach 14-17s
At 100 concurrent connections that fill the server's link:
- 0 loss tolerance shows 2-3% losses
- 1 loss tolerance shows 3-5% losses
- 2 loss tolerance shows 10-13% losses
- 4 loss tolerance shows 23-29% losses
As such while there can be a significant gain sometimes in setting this
tolerance above zero, it can also significantly waste bandwidth by sending
far more than can be received. While it's probably not a solution to real
world problems, it repeatedly proved to be a very effective troubleshooting
tool helping to figure different root causes of low transfer speeds. In
spirit it is comparable to the no-cc congestion algorithm, i.e. it must
not be used except for experimentation.
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HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.
