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Vic_13197
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Oct 06, 2010

Which load balancing algorithm? What's going on?

  Environment:     Web application on two load balanced servers. User comes in from the internet (HTTPS only), connects to the servers to make a request. Web servers then need to fetch data ...
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hoolio
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Oct 07, 2010
Hi Vic,

 

 

Are your percentages of 55% and 45% connections or HTTP requests? Does the load generator open new connections with new SSL session ID negotiation for every client session? I'd guess the issue here might be that the load generator is either re-using connections and/or SSL session IDs and therefore not mimicking the client traffic patterns you're expecting. If you test with individual browsers, do you see more even distribution of connections and requests?

 

 

Aaron