I need to solve the following issue.
Say I have 1000 simultaneous requests (POSTs) to my single webserver which can process - say - 10 requests per second. Is there a way to put the 990 remaining requests in a queue to spoon feed the server?
What is the easiest way to accomplish this sort of buffering?
Thanks
Filip
Cirrostratus
I don't think there is a safe method to queue HTTP requests on LTM. This has been discussed a few times. This post has some possible options:
http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=25174
Aaron
The method was to count the connections to the server and when the threshold was reached, insert a custom cookie then use HTTP::respond to send back a "please hold" type queuing page to the user that had a built in meta refresh. The cookie could then be used to prioritize those that have already been queued (or those that have been queued more than x times, or whatever you wanted), allowing them in first when the server had more free connections.
Colin
