Fair Proxy Balancer

[Grzegorz Nosek]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0400, David Pratt wrote:
> Hi Grzegorz. I appreciate your explanation. It would be more convenient 
> to compile as an option since I am using an automated build process. If 
> it is self contained, can you forsee any problems building with most 
> current 0.5.x branch or is this strictly 0.6.x? Also, what is the 
> request threshold that triggers the issue with round robin issue that I 
> am aware. Many thanks.

The module works with 0.5.x as well as 0.6.x (if it doesn't work for
you, please mail me with a bug report).

There's no threshold per se, it's just that the original load balancer
directs requests strictly round robin, i.e. 0-1-2-3-0-1-2-3 etc. This
ensures that every backend gets the same number of requests.

upstream_fair always starts from backend 0 and works its way up until it
finds an idle peer (more or less). If your load effectively uses a
single backend at one time, it'll always be backend 0. If it uses the
power of two backends, they'll be 0 and 1 etc. Thus the first backend
will always have the most requests served, the second one will have more
than the third etc.

Best regards,
 Grzegorz Nosek