I'm against it because it's deceptive. It makes people think it does something and it doesn't, really.<br><br>If you see a measurable effect, I'd love to see numbers and your (mis-?)configuration.<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Paul Baker™ <<a href="mailto:bakerp@google.com">bakerp@google.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Who doesn't have a weighted random patch? Mine's at <a href="http://givetheworld.net/perlbal-weighted-random.patch" target="_blank">http://givetheworld.net/perlbal-weighted-random.patch</a><br><br>:-D<div><div></div>
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Jonty <<a href="mailto:jonty@last.fm" target="_blank">jonty@last.fm</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:51 -0700, Mark Smith wrote:<br>
> > AFAIK, perlbal actually only supports the "random" load-balancing algorithm.<br>
> > I've never actually tried using round-robin, but the last time I was in the<br>
> > source-code I thought I remember there being code to throw an error if<br>
> > anything other than "random" was specified.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, it's random. At one point I wrote a patch to make weighted<br>
> random, but never got it committed...<br>
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</div>I've got a similar patch to send upstream, I'll see if I can make some<br>
time for that. I also implemented normal round-robin, just for the hell<br>
of it.<br>
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