On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:34 AM, jean-frederic clere wrote: > On 06/30/2010 04:17 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> Yet again, in class another student pointed out that the Enabled/Disabled >> choice in mod_proxy_balancer totally ignores the concept of quiescing, >> where we are taking a server offline, but continuing to serve those >> requests targeted by session to that server. Once the number of sessions >> settles on something quite low, the user then takes that server offline >> entirely and the remaining users are subjected to 'expired session' results. >> >> A boolean Enabled/Disabled flag doesn't address this need. >> >> Does anyone feel like working on this feature, since those I had >> previously approached didn't have all that much interest, or got >> busy with other things? >> >> > > There are several things that requires improvements: > 1 - The default load balancing logic doesn't work well when you restart > a back-end node. > > 2 - Nothing from the shared information is persisted so a restart may > have weird effect. > > 3 - Additionally the forward and reserve proxy logic are mixed togother > so it makes hard to change anything. >
Yep... all stuff that should be fixed in 2.4... or *will* be ;)
