Questions about fair_upstream module

[Davide D'Amico]

In data 14 marzo 2012 alle ore 13:00:00, <nginx-request at nginx.org> ha  
scritto:

> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:18:16 +0400
> From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa at FreeBSD.org.ru>
> To: nginx at nginx.org
> Subject: Re: Questions about fair_upstream module
> Message-ID: <20120314111816.GA84365 at FreeBSD.org.ru>
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:18:09AM +0100, Davide D'Amico wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm actually serving pages using nginx-1.0.13 on fbsd-8.2 amd64 with 3
>> backends (fbsd-8.2 amd64 with apache-2.2.22) and I'm using the default  
>> rr
>> upstream algorithm.
>>
>> I am trying to switch to an algorithm different from rr, and I am  
>> thinking
>> to the fair upstream module.
>>
>> Well, the homepage of the project seems quite old (and so it's ticketing
>> system: http://nginx.localdomain.pl/report/6) and that's not a good
>> starting point
>>
>> Anyway, "googling" around searching for tips and use cases, I found:
>> http://affectioncode.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/comparing-nginx-and-haproxy-for-web-applications/
>>
>> that seems a very old post.
>>
>> Does anyone use fair-upstream module in production? Any hints or tips
>> before trying it?
>>
>> Differences between fair-module and haproxy?
> Just the note: nginx with nginx_upstream_fair module version 20090923
> (i.e. dated material) available from FreeBSD ports tree.

So if I wish to use upstream_fair I have to compile it? Or newer versions  
of upstream_fair don't compile on fbsd-8?


> haproxy is the different product, the proxy server.
>

Yes, and I don't want to install other two server carp'ed in a chain to  
use haproxy :(


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