> > So my question is about the balancer plugin - why exactly is it > > broken? > > It has a bunch of dependencies on Yahoo infrastructure that were > never open sourced. > > > Does the planned rewrite by Alan have an ETA? > > The plugin works by making an IPC call to a balancing service. We > would need to evaluate and choose a suitable service, then implement > the balancer IPC calls or implement a full balancer. I guess that > what I'm saying is that there's not actually much load balancing > code in the balancer plugin ;)
There have been vocal calls from the developer community to place the loadbalancing capabilities into the core, while laying the responsibility of checking of checking the backend's health into the virtual hands of plugins, or the real hands of their developers. (This is probably something that could easily be done in Lua, even by "mere" admins) Implementing this however would probably require us to touch on everything in core, something that (w|c)ould destabilize ATS… i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE
