Chapter 9 ("Tuning Apache and
mod_perl") in mod_perl
Developer's Cookbook, by Geoffrey Young,
Paul Lindner, and Randy Kobes (Sams Publishing).
mod_backhand,
which provides load balancing for Apache: http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/.
The High-Availability Linux Project, the definitive guide to
load-balancing techniques: http://www.linux-ha.org/.
lbnamed, a
load-balancing name server written in Perl: http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/,
http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/bof.talk/,
or http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html.
The Linux Virtual Server Project: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/.
The latest IPFilter:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/.
This filter includes some simple load-balancing code that allows a
round-robin distribution onto several machines via
ipnat. This may be a simple solution for a few
specific load problems.
The lingerd server and all the documentation are
available from http://www.iagora.com/about/software/lingerd/.
The
mod_proxy_add_forward
Apache module, complete with instructions on how to compile it, is
available from one of these URLs: http://modules.apache.org/search?id=124 or
http://develooper.com/code/mpaf/mod_proxy_add_forward.c
.
Apache::Proxy::Info, a friendly mod_perl
counterpart to mod_proxy_add_forward.
Solaris 2.x—Tuning Your TCP/IP Stack and
More: http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html.
This page talks about the TCP/IP stack and various tricks of tuning
your system to get the most out of it as a web server. While the
information is for the Solaris 2.x OS, most of it will be relevant of
other Unix flavors. At the end of the page, an extensive list of
related literature is presented.
splitlog, part of
the wwwstat distribution, is available at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/.
