fair load balancing?

[Drew Wilson]

I'll admit I'm completely knew to Perlbal, but I don't understand how  
verify_backend will work here.

I just ran Perlbal up last week, proxying http requests to Mongrel app  
servers.
I had "SET verify_backend  = on" in my config file.

I still saw long-requests blocking subsequent requests.

Am I misunderstanding something?

Thanks,

Drew

On Jun 19, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Moses Hohman wrote:
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>> Is there some way to set Perlbal's config to avoid sending another  
>> request to a backend server that is still processing a long request  
>> (unless all backends are occupied)?
>
>
> I just read the question better (after getting a private follow-up  
> from someone else).
>
> You want the verify_backend option; not a different load balancing  
> algorithm.
>
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