On 06/19/2006 06:21 PM, Mladen Turk wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm would like to give few notes on the things I'm
> currently working on, so that eventually no duplicate
> work is done if someone already have similar things
> on his drawing board.
>
> 1. Additional by business load balancing method
> that will load balance on the actual load of the
> beckend servers. The servers that have shorter reply
> time will get more load.
Sounds good.
>
> 2. Hot standby support. Something we have recently added
> to the mod_jk that allows to have the 'hot-standby'
> backend node, that sits there and does nothing until
> all the other nodes fail.
+1
>
> 3. CPING/CPONG support for the AJP protocol, for checking
> the status of the backend server prior of sending the
> data itself.
+1. Just one thought: I think it would be useful to have this 'health check'
approach somewhat generic so that we can implement the call to it inside
mod_proxy
and its connection pooling itself (e.g. with providers supplied by schema
handlers / modules). For AJP this would be CPING/CPONG of course and
mod_proxy itself could offer a generic TCP connection 'health check'
provider that simply
checks the status of a TCP connection as far as this is possible without
reading or writing data. This would be a very generic provider. Other
protocol
handlers could define other (better) protocol specific providers and
just plug them in.
Regards
Rüdiger
P.S: Are you in Dublin next week?
