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Hi Mike,

 

 

I am planning on using a redundant LTM 1500 for a web based mail application service. The planned configuration is to use a single virtual server and select a pool based on URI.

 

I was thinking of using iRules to do this. Since you wrote as follows, I would like to know if this suggestion was based on a performance reason and would like to know how much performance gain I could have by using HTTP Classification profile.

 

 

Mike wrote on 07/01/2008 1:47 PM

 

> For common tasks like selecting a pool of servers based on the HTTP URI you don't even need iRules -- I suggest using the httpclass profile (HTTP Classification profile) instead.

 

 

I understand that it might be difficult to compare iRules' performance since there would be many ways to implement a pool selection. What would you say, if you compare it to the L7 [1-inf] configuration : "HTTP 1.0 or HTTP 1.1 with 1 transaction per connection and OneConnect enabled", listed in the chart found under this thread. Or may be to a standard HTTP profile without iRule selection and OneConnect disabled.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=40&postid=22989&view=topic

 

 

I just want some general numbers for planning purpose. Any advice and suggestive readings would be highly appreciated.

 

 

Noel