Is it possible to monitor the fair proxy balancer?

[Robbie Allen]

Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Robbie Allen <lists at ruby-forum.com> 
> wrote:
> Our experience is that the "fair" load balancer is unstable under
> heavy load, and tends to gradually pull upstreams out of the pool.
> This may be what you are experiencing.

Ok.

> Not at the moment. If you want this kind of information, I recommend
> HAProxy. In addition to providing machine-readable per-backend stats,
> it also renders the same information as an HTML page:
> 
>   http://www.igvita.com/posts/05-08/haproxy-large.png

Kind of a big limitation with fair if it provides ZERO instrumentation.

>> I also see the following error in syslog, but I'm unsure if it is
>> related....
>>
>> nginx[17280]: segfault at 00007fffa0869fd0 rip 00002ac509ea61e3 rsp
>> 00007fffa0869ed0 error 6
> 
> That's a segment fault -- ie., Nginx is crashing on you.
> 
> Alexander.

Yeah, I just don't know if it is related to fair.  Perhaps the debug log 
will help.

Guess I'll have to start looking at HAProxy, but I'd rather not.

Robbie
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