On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote: > The round robin of the leastconn will not apply weigths, it's only > used between servers which have the exact same amount of connections > in order to avoid the common syndrom of the low load always hitting > the same server because there's either 0 or 1 connection. >
Ahh, that's the piece I was missing, and hadn't found yet in the code. > Also there are situations where you really want to ensure that only > round robin will be used. For instance, if you place your visitors > on servers and then do cookie-based persistence, you absolutely want > to ensure the smoothest possible distribution, which round robin > achieves. If you'd do leastconn on that, sometimes you'd place a > user on an apparently less loaded server at the moment you have to > select the server, resulting in an imbalance between all servers. > Make perfect sense, just hadn't thought it through enough. Thank!
