[FreeNX-kNX] Load-balancing in FreeNX

[Prakash Velayutham]

Thanks Fabian. I will try this out soon.

Is there a necessity for shared nx database area between the NX load- 
balanced systems?

Thanks,
Prakash

On Aug 14, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Fabian Franz wrote:

>> Hello All,
>
> Hi,
>
>>
>> How well does the load-balancing feature work now?
>
> As far as I know it works now for most.
>
>> Is there some
>> documentation on how to get that done other than just the comments in
>> the node.conf file?
>
> I don't think so:
>
> I guess the easiest setup is to have one front node and several  
> slave nodes and have the slave nodes only be accessible through the  
> front node (i.e. no routing) like:
>
> front node:
>
> external 172.16.1.1
> internal 192.168.1.1
>
> slave nodes: 192.168.1.x
>
> On the front node you setup LOAD_BALANCE_SERVERS="192.168.1.2  
> 192.168.1.3" and so on ...
>
> You set load balance algorithm to "random" for testing it first.
>
> Later you can use the supplied script to do more sophistic load  
> balancing based on number of users or load or ... by changing it  
> back to "load".
>
> For this you copy nxcheckload.sample to the directory, where also  
> nxserver and the other scripts are and change it according to how  
> you have it setup.
>
> There are some examples in there.
>
> Others have added a mysql database and other stuff to set it up ...
>
> cu
>
> Fabian
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