Re: health check on httpd load average

2010-11-18 Thread Maxime Ducharme
Hi Bedis We run memcached for sessions sharing between almost a hundred of httpds so we do not need to manage sessions at haproxy level. Thanks for reply Have a nice day -- Maxime Ducharme Systems Architect On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 00:12 +0100, Bedis 9 wrote: Hi, I'm not (yet) an HAproxy

health check on httpd load average

2010-11-17 Thread Maxime Ducharme
Hi guys I would like to accomplish to following with HAProxy : if a server show a load average too high, indicate this server as down and remove it from live traffic. When load avg get to a better state, put server back online. Looking into documentation I think the following could work, I would

Re: health check on httpd load average

2010-11-17 Thread Bedis 9
Hi, I'm not (yet) an HAproxy expert, but your scenario is good enough if the application hosted on the backend servers is sessionless or not... If you don't need session, then your scenario could work. (be careful that all your backend won't answer a 5xx at the same time ;) ) If you need session