[lvs-users] what is the max throughput LVS can handle, and max number of concurrent connection?

[jason.faulkner at mailtrust.com]

> I would like to test the way you test to see if I  can get 50k/s and
> 10,000,000 concurrent connection. What kind of test condition do you
> use, clients? server? data size?
> 

The throughput numbers are cake. I push >15MB/s through multiple firewall boxes; not this many concurrent connections, mind you, but a significatly higher throughput. I wouldn't worry about it. Just get good CPUs and NICs (multicore doesn't help).

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Jason Faulkner 
Linux Systems Engineer
Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace