Hey, A slowdown would be interesting if you want to avoid any huge traffic to be redirected to quickly to other backends.
A nice feature, maybe already implemented, would be the "grace shutdown" of a backend. In case you use sticky session, "grace shutdown" would balance new incoming request to other backends and wait the established sessions to finish to consider the backend completely down. It's longer to shutdown a backend, but it's safer for your buisness ;) cheers On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:29 PM, David Birdsong <david.birds...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Willy, > > Haproxy rocks! > > I've been using slowstart lately and was wondering if it would be > possible to add the opposite--something like 'slowdeath'. Some > external event would trigger, perhaps a very specific HTTP code, or a > command coming through the control socket, haproxy would un-weight the > server over a preconfigured interval down to zero. > > I have a script that essentially does this--before I discovered > slowstart it took care to bring the server up slowly. If slowdeath > existed, I could delete more code from this script! > >
