Documentation?

dormando dormando at rydia.net
Thu Apr 3 04:01:57 UTC 2008


Yeah. Definitely.

If you find yourself needing a load balancing algorithm at all, please
share with the list :) There're a few of us who'd love to preach the
simple way.

It'd be nice to just start a wiki FAQ thing for perlbal we could fill
out. I'm too lazy to decide where it'd go though :)

-Dormando

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I'm against it because it's deceptive.  It makes people think it does
> something and it doesn't, really.
> 
> If you see a measurable effect, I'd love to see numbers and your
> (mis-?)configuration.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Paul Baker™ <bakerp at google.com
> <mailto:bakerp at google.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Who doesn't have a weighted random patch? Mine's at
>     http://givetheworld.net/perlbal-weighted-random.patch
> 
>     :-D
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Jonty <jonty at last.fm
>     <mailto:jonty at last.fm>> wrote:
> 
>         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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