load balancing

Hi,

I experience quite a performance breakdown in the middle of the day, when lots of whiteboards have been used. My idea was to use a nginx load balancer to split the requests up to multiple instances/servers. I open up two whiteboards (on 8080 and 8081) and use the config below. Then the whiteboards does not work any more. Strange thing ist, that a few lines get drawed, but very randomly. The cursor of other participants is not visible any more.

upstream backendwhiteboard {
	hash $request_uri;
	server localhost:8080;
        server localhost:8081;
    }
	
server {
        server_name MYDOMAIN.XYZ;

        location / {
		proxy_pass http://backendwhiteboard;
	}
}

Do you have an idea how to get a load balancer working?

Regards

[FloChehab]

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I am currently working on some tweaks to increase the performances of this project (by changing some behaviors to reduce the number of messages and small websockets optimization). I’ll most likely open a PR tomorrow or Friday.

[tna76874]

thanks, I’m starting my docker-compose with this, and gonna give it a try. I report if performance will be better next week 😃

version: '3.1'
services:
  whiteboard:
    image: rofl256/whiteboard
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:8080/tcp
    environment:
      - accesstoken=mysupersecretkey
      - NODE_OPTIONS='--max_old_space_size=4096'