fair load balancing?

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

Setup all the servers to not accept more requests than the can  
handle.  The server itself will always know better than the load  
balancer possibly could.

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On Jun 19, 2008, at 16:42, Moses Hohman <moses at collaborativedrug.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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)? We have legitimate reasons for  
> some requests to take a long time, but because our backends are a  
> pool of mongrel processes, we don't want simple round robin  
> balancing. I looked through the various configuration options and so  
> far didn't see anything obvious (at least to me).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Moses