On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote:

> Load balancers are pretty poor for this sort of thing though; if you
> have one server that's running slowly, most load balancers will still
> quite happily hand off clients to it and be oblivious to them  
> queuing up
> waiting for it to actually accept().  After years of using these  
> things,
> there's what, one project to try to teach a single load balancer about
> this sort of thing?



ha-proxy makes this easy to prevent - you can configure it to fwd  
request only to non-busy backends, queueing all other requests  
internally.

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