I think I am doing something wrong with HAProxy conf because my throughput drops to 25% in a real-world test done with HAProxy and one single AWS instance. Following is my relevant (extremely simple) configuration:
global
log 127.0.0.1 local2
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid
maxconn 20000
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
stats socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats
defaults
mode http
log global
option httplog
option dontlognull
option http-server-close
option forwardfor except 127.0.0.0/8
option redispatch
retries 3
timeout http-request 10s
timeout queue 1m
timeout connect 10s
timeout client 1m
timeout server 1m
timeout http-keep-alive 10s
timeout check 10s
maxconn 30000
frontend localnodes
bind *:80
mode http
default_backend nodes
backend nodes
mode http
balance roundrobin
hash-type consistent
option httpchk /health
server w1 xx.xx.xx.xx:80 check id 1
I had enabled logging. A typical entry in log looks like this:
Dec 2 10:56:59 localhost haproxy[25988]: xx.xx.xx.xx:39789 [02/Dec/2016:10:56:58.729] main app/app1 0/0/1000/1/1002 200 449 - - ---- 13/13/13/7/0 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"
Dec 2 10:56:59 localhost haproxy[25988]: xx.xx.xx.xx:39803 [02/Dec/2016:10:56:58.730] main app/app1 0/0/999/1/1000 200 377 - - ---- 12/12/12/7/0 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"
Dec 2 10:56:59 localhost haproxy[25988]: xx.xx.xx.xx:39804 [02/Dec/2016:10:56:58.730] main app/app1 0/0/999/1/1000 200 277 - - ---- 11/11/11/7/0 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"
My throughput is 25% of what a direct traffic to my instance would be. This is terrible performance. Am I doing something really wrong?