On 2/13/08 12:27 PM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This does not help with race conditions on HTTP keepalive connections. > Nevertheless active healthchecking could be useful. But on a busy site > I guess a real request will notice before the healthcheck that one backend > is down or the frequence of health checks needs to be insane. On a busy site you want to know if a server is down before you send a few thousand requests to it and want to know that it's up as soon as it's available so you can send a few thousand requests to it. -- Brian Akins Chief Operations Engineer Turner Digital Media Technologies