iw.recipe.pound 0.4.0

Recipe to install and configure Pound

Contents

• Change history

  • 0.4.0 (2008-06-26)

  • 0.3.0

  • 0.2.0

  • 0.1.0

• Detailed Documentation

• Building

  • Supported options

  • Example usage

• Configuring

  • Supported options

  • Example usage

• Contributors

• Download

• Code repository: https://ingeniweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ingeniweb/iw.recipe.pound/trunk

Change history

0.4.0 (2008-06-26)

• add a ctl script (as iw.recipe.squid) [youenn]

0.3.0

• devide recipe in two part : build and config part [youenn]

• add options to build (extra-options) [youenn]

• add options to the config file (time-out, priority …) [youenn]

0.2.0

• added a script to launch pound with the right conf file [tarek]

0.1.0

• Initial release [tarek]

Detailed Documentation

Building

Supported options

The recipe supports the following options:

url

URL for an archive containing the Pound sources. Either url or svn has to be specified.

svn

URL for a subversion repository containing Pound sources. Either url or svn has to be specified.

ssl_dir

OpenSSL home directory (default: system defined).

t_rsa

timeout of the RSA ephemeral keys regeneration (default: 300 seconds).

owner

name of installed binaries owner (default is user that launch buildout).

group

name of installed binaries group (default is system-dependent)

extra-options

extra options for compilation

Example usage

We’ll start by creating a buildout that uses the recipe:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = poundbuild
...
... [poundbuild]
... recipe = iw.recipe.pound:build
... url = http://www.apsis.ch/pound/Pound-2.3.2.tgz
... """ )

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> print system(buildout)
Installing poundbuild.
poundbuild: compilation option : --with-owner=youenn --with-group=youenn
poundbuild: Downloading http://www.apsis.ch/pound/Pound-2.3.2.tgz
poundbuild: Unpacking and configuring
...

Configuring

Supported options

The recipe supports the following options:

daemon - Daemon 0|1

Have Pound run in the foreground (if 0) or as a daemon (if 1). By default Pound runs as a daemon (detaches itself from the controlling terminal and puts itself in the background). By specifying this option you can force Pound to work like a regular process. Useful for debugging or if you want to use something like daemontools.

log_facility - LogFacility value

Specify the log facility to use. value (default: daemon) must be one of the symbolic facility names defined in syslog.h. This facility shall be used for logging. Using a - for the facility name causes Pound to log to stdout/stderr.

log_level - LogLevel value

Specify the logging level: 0 for no logging, 1 (default) for regular logging, 2 for extended logging (show chosen backend server as well), 3 for Apache-like format (Combined Log Format with Virtual Host), 4 (same as 3 but without the virtual host information) and 5 (same as 4 but with information about the Service and BackEnd used). This value can be overridden for specific listeners.

dynscale - DynScale 0|1

Enable or disable the dynamic rescaling code (default: 0). If enabled Pound will periodically try to modify the back-end priorities in order to equalise the response times from the various back-ends. This value can be overridden for specific services.

alive - Alive value

Specify how often Pound will check for resurected back-end hosts (default: 30 seconds). In general, it is a good idea to set this as low as possible - it will find resurected hosts faster. However, if you set it too low it will consume resources - so beware.

client - Client value

Specify for how long Pound will wait for a client request (default: 10 seconds). After this long has passed without the client sending any data Pound will close the connection. Set it higher if your clients time-out on a slow network or over-loaded server, lower if you start getting DOS attacks or run into problems with IE clients. This value can be overridden for specific listeners.

timeout - TimeOut value

How long should Pound wait for a response from the back-end (in seconds). Default: 15 seconds.

grace - Grace value

How long should Pound continue to answer existing connections after a receiving and INT or HUP signal (default: 30 seconds). The configured listeners are closed immediately. You can bypass this behaviour by stopping Pound with a TERM or QUIT signal, in which case the program exits without any delay.

balancers - list of listener http with backend

Set the list of backends, the list by default is name adress:port adress-backend-1:port-backend-1(,priority,timeOut) adress-backend-2:port-backend-2(,priority,timeOut) … adress-backend-n:port-backend-n(,priority,timeOut)

executable - path to pound, required if pound executable is not provided by the build recipe

Example usage

We’ll start by creating a buildout that uses the recipe:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = configpound
...
... [configpound]
... recipe = iw.recipe.pound:config
... balancers =
...    one  127.0.0.1:80 127.0.0.1:8080 127.0.0.1:8081,1
...    two  0.0.0.0:81 127.0.0.1:8082,1,120 127.0.0.1:8083 169.1.1.2:80
...
... """ )

Running the buildout gives us:

>>> print system(buildout)
Installing configpound.
...

Contributors

Ingeniweb Internal sprint 2008 Tarek Ziade Youenn Boussard

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