Documentation?

Jonty jonty at last.fm
Wed Apr 2 11:27:42 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:51 -0700, Mark Smith wrote:
> > AFAIK, perlbal actually only supports the "random" load-balancing algorithm.
> > I've never actually tried using round-robin, but the last time I was in the
> > source-code I thought I remember there being code to throw an error if
> > anything other than "random" was specified.
> 
> Yeah, it's random.  At one point I wrote a patch to make weighted
> random, but  never got it committed...

I've got a similar patch to send upstream, I'll see if I can make some
time for that. I also implemented normal round-robin, just for the hell
of it.

--jonty


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