I assume it would be connection based round robin? Might work just fine, but probably best to the use built-in support.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Rahul Ravindran <rahu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Resending given I sent it during off-hours. > > ________________________________ > From: Rahul Ravindran <rahu...@yahoo.com> > To: "user@flume.apache.org" <user@flume.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:52 PM > Subject: Flume hops behind HAProxy > > Hi, > Before I try it, I wanted to check if there were any known issues with > this. We will have multiple flume agents sending an Avro stream each to a > smaller set of intermediate flume hops. Are there any issues/concerns around > having the flume agents send their streams to an HAProxy which will round > robin between the different flume hops. Any issue around the transaction > mechanism with this setup? > > I know that there is a selector mechanism in Flume to do this, but our > operations extensively use HAProxy, and are most familiar with it. > > Thanks, > ~Rahul. > > -- Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
