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Re:Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server by waterlesscloud on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:43PM (#2026066)
So I know nothing about haproxy, but what sort of system load does it generate?

They say they ran it on a EC2 micro instance, and the micro instances are specifically designed to handle spikes, not continuous heavy load. In fact, they intentionally throttle under continuous heavy load.

I guess it must have been the right choice for them, I was just surprised to see it was a micro. Would that typically be the right way to go?

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Re:Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server by jbyers on Monday December 20, 2010 @06:11PM (#2026151)
HAProxy is very light. We put it between nginx and our webservers for better failure handling, load-balancing, and some additional logging detail. On a small system (single AMD 1226) it's averaged 3% CPU over the last 15 days while handling ~300M requests.
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Re:Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server by jonburs on Monday December 20, 2010 @07:22PM (#2026369)
The micro instance was fronting the render farm. As far as I can tell the article doesn't specify the instance types in use for any of the other components.
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Re:Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server by waterlesscloud on Monday December 20, 2010 @09:12PM (#2026614)
Ah! I see that now, thanks for pointing that out!
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