Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-26 Thread Vincent Fox
On 5/26/2010 8:06 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > I wish it were that straightforward. After performing several > switchovers where DNS A records were repointed, many clients (days > later) continue trying to access the old servers. TTL on the DNS records > are set appropriately short, this is simply a c

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-26 Thread Blake Hudson
Andy Bennett wrote: > In failure cases existing clients will wobble for a bit until their > cache expires and then the connections will have to be reestablished. > I wish it were that straightforward. After performing several switchovers where DNS A records were repointed, many clients (days

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Vincent Fox
On 5/11/2010 5:35 AM, Andre Nathan wrote: > Hello > > I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The > setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing > options I have. > > I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS load > balancing. Howeve

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Andre Nathan
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:12 -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > We symlink our proc and log directories out to > TMPFS directories local to each server. There is > little sense to keeping proc & logs on disk IMO. Do you know if the log directory is used even when none of the databases is set to berkele

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Vincent Fox
On 5/11/2010 6:40 AM, Andre Nathan wrote: > What I still haven't figured out is how to keep the proc directory and > the locks in the socket directory local to the cluster nodes. For the > socket names there are configuration options, so I could just choose > different names for each cluster node.

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The > setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing > options I have. > > I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS load > balancing. However, for this to work, I need to consider what h

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Andre Nathan
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:16 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > By the way, did you test your setup with considerable load?, I was > really interested in this kind of solution, looking at various docs > and mail posts, main concern seems to be file locking I've tested DRBD and OCFS2 under heavy load,

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Andre Nathan
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:57 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > LVS is quite simple to setup this days, there's no need to patch the > kernel with any mainstream distribution... Yeah, that was my second option, as I already use it for other services. I was just wondering if I could come up with something

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2010/5/11 Kenneth Marshall : > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:35:26AM -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The >> setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing >> options I have. >> By the way, did you test your

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2010/5/11 Andre Nathan : > Hello > > I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The > setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing > options I have. > > I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS load > balancing. However, for this to wo

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Menge
Quoting Andre Nathan : Hello I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing options I have. For Clustering Cyrus have a look at http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CyrusCluster I have no e

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:35:26AM -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: > Hello > > I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The > setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing > options I have. > > I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS lo