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This makes a significant difference when loading large files and during commit and clear operations, thanks to improved cache locality. In the measurements below, master refers to the code before any of the changes to the patterns code, not the code before this one commit. Timing the replacement of 10M entries from the CLI with this command which also reports timestamps at start, end of upload and end of clear: $ (echo "prompt i"; echo "show activity"; echo "prepare acl #0"; awk '{print "add acl @1 #0",$0}' < bad-ip.map; echo "show activity"; echo "commit acl @1 #0"; echo "clear acl @0 #0";echo "show activity") | socat -t 10 - /tmp/sock1 | grep ^uptim master, on a 3.7 GHz EPYC, 3 samples: uptime_now: 6.087030 uptime_now: 25.981777 => 21.9 sec insertion time uptime_now: 29.286368 => 3.3 sec commit+clear uptime_now: 5.748087 uptime_now: 25.740675 => 20.0s insertion time uptime_now: 29.039023 => 3.3 s commit+clear uptime_now: 7.065362 uptime_now: 26.769596 => 19.7s insertion time uptime_now: 30.065044 => 3.3s commit+clear And after this commit: uptime_now: 6.119215 uptime_now: 25.023019 => 18.9 sec insertion time uptime_now: 27.155503 => 2.1 sec commit+clear uptime_now: 5.675931 uptime_now: 24.551035 => 18.9s insertion uptime_now: 26.652352 => 2.1s commit+clear uptime_now: 6.722256 uptime_now: 25.593952 => 18.9s insertion uptime_now: 27.724153 => 2.1s commit+clear Now timing the startup time with a 10M entries file (on another machine) on master, 20 samples: Standard Deviation, s: 0.061652677408033 Mean: 4.217 And after this commit: Standard Deviation, s: 0.081821371548669 Mean: 3.78
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.