On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Mads Toftum wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:22:43PM -0500, Akins, Brian wrote:
Would it be more useful to have active healthchecking to backend
servers?
Ie, periodically hit a url on each origin and mark them up/down
based on
response. Only send traffic to up servers. I think mod_backhand
does
something similar but much more complex (?).
Yes. Being able to check a URL seems more useful than plain ping.
Even more useful would be recording the time a backend takes to
answer a
request and using that to distribute requests.
The latter is relatively easy to do with the current
impl... Maybe I'll drop the ping idea and work on this ;)
