Hi

 

I'm a newcomer to Pound, and have a few questions about how it works
with Solaris 9 and 10.

 

First, I've compiled and am running pound version 2.0.2 on Solaris 9,
but it seems to be ignoring all command line options.  It does run, and
it does what I want, but I need to know if anyone else has this problem.

 

The purpose we want to use pound for requires we take close to 200
requests per second, so I was wanting to know how to accomplish running
multiple pound instances, as referenced under the "big iron" section of
the man page.  It is currently running with a parent and a single child
process, but I'm unsuccessful at starting any other instances.  Is there
a configuration file directive to start N children ?

 

Config info:  1 main proxy listener, 2 backend servers, using HTTP only.

Pound Version:  2.0.2

Systems:  Solaris 9 and 10.

 

 

Burt

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:02 -0600, Burt Gedney wrote:[...]

What does it mean "ignores all command line options"? Does it not use
your config file? What exactly is wrong?
[...]

No, and I think you misunderstood the man page: it just says you start
one or more instances at boot time, as required. Each instance is a
separate program, with its own configuration and parameters.
[...]

It is normal to see a single child - on Solaris the threads are not
shown separately (I seem to recall you need a ps flag to show those).
Pound will use all available CPUs - the threads package takes care of
that. Weather you can do 200 requests/second depends very much on your
hardware: a single CPU Ultra-2 probably won't cut it, a 2 CPU SunFire
240 should have no problem with it.[...]