httpterm 1.3.0 The tests are quite simple. An HTTP request generator runs on the faster Phenom (amd2) since this soft is the heaviest of the chain. HAProxy runs on the Core2Duo (c2d). The web server runs on the smaller Athlon (amd1). Connections are point-to-point since I still have no 10GbE switch (donations accepted ;-)). Haproxy is configured to use kernel splicing in the response path : listen