weight and balancing in upstream proxy

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:09:16AM +0200, B.R. via nginx wrote:

> That is an interesting questions as intuitively, people could think the
> former behavior applies.
> 
> If I got the source code
> <https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/http/ngx_http_upstream_round_robin.c#L507>
> right, and as the docs
> <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#upstream>
> state, nginx is following a weighted round-robin
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_round_robin> algorithm.
> It thus means it will go over the same list of servers everytime a peer
> needs to be chosen (ie for every request), and pick the first not having
> depleted its weight allocation.
> 
> To me, it would use the latter of your proposals.
> ​Please correct me if I am wrong, so incorrect information does not
> propagate too much. :o)​

The Wikipedia link in question doesn't seem to be related to what 
nginx does.

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Maxim Dounin
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