Hi, I've been using pound for about two years, thanks for the great
program. I have a question concerning sessions. I've been noticing
during our busiest times it seems after a certain point pound can't
remember new sessions anymore, so new sessions cannot be maintained on
the web server.

1) User hits pound
2) pound sends request to certain backend
3) session gets made on backend
4) user hits pound again
5) pound sends request to a different backend, now backend has no idea
about the session

I only see this problem during times when we have most of our traffic,
when we get around 1000 requests per minute.

I tried to see if we were perhaps maxing on threads or file descriptors.
I counted the treads with ps and used lsof for file descriptor and
counted those periodically in a cron job.

Max I see from lsof: ~200
Max # of threads I see is ~100

These are no where near the limit as shown in ulimit.
I'm using pound v1.9 on Linux 2.4 kernel. Does anyone have ideas?


Russell Valentine