nginx upstream problem

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:27:33PM -0400, izghitu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ok, the failover problem is solved after I applied Maxim's 
> suggestions.
> 
> Now the current problem is that nginx does not load balance 
> equally between servers.
> 
> Under heavy load(300 clients) I killed 2 apache servers so 
> apache3 was taking all the load. I put back online apache2 and 
> now for some reason apache3 was getting few hits and most of the 
> load was going to apache2. When I put back online apache1, it 
> got most of the load, apache2 taking less load and apache3 
> almost no load at all.
> 
> Why the strange behavior? How do I make it load balance equally 
> between the 3 apache servers? All the apache servers have 
> identical hardware and software configuration.

Please do the following:

1. make sure you compiled nginx without third party modules and 
patches, and show nginx -V output;

2. show your config;

3. show access logs with $upstream_addr logged to make it clear 
that requests are indeed distributed unequally (note that with 
with 32 workers and 3 backends you have to provide at least 32 * 3 
lines).

Maxim Dounin