Brian, > I see - so rather than connecting to one of the endpoints, it connects to > all of them simultaneously. Thanks. > > I think there's a use case for the other model too. For very large numbers > of clients (N) and servers (M) it could scale better if each client picked > one endpoint. Each server would only have to handle N/M connections on > average.
Yes. This can be achieved in two ways: 1. On top of 0MQ. Each client simply chooses a random server to connect to. 2. Using a shared queue. All clients connect to the queue. All servers connect to the queue. Queue manages fair load-balancing of client requests among the servers. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
