lvs-dr with freebsd jailhost as realservers: resolved.

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Mike Bloom wrote:

> No problem. I find them very useful for clusterable services like radius, 
> mysql and ldap.
>
> Encapsulated revision control pretty much. I can clone a system image on my 
> nas that is in production in a mass hosting environment with perl5.8 and 
> upgrade it to 6.2, look at the performance, load and stability

but if you're running on a box with multiple other instances 
of jailed FreeBSD, presumably all running their own jobs, 
you're going to have a hard time figuring how how your 
realserver instance will handle the load?

> The jail is also handy for partitioning access for security as well, so it 
> acts as an extra layer of privilege separation.

OK

> Its a very light weight architecture compared to the overhead of vmware or 
> xen, but if my lvs-dr setup was being used for a service that was load 
> centric instead of HA, I'd be running a dedicated realserver.

OK

Thanks Joe

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