On 14 Nov 2012, at 18:49, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > I really like how Perlbal does it: > > It opens a connection when it thinks it needs more and issues a (by default, > it's configurable) "OPTIONS *" request and only after getting a successful > response to the test will it send real requests on that connection (and then > it will keep the connection open with Keep-Alive for further requests).
X-Server-Load: would still be an improvement, eg with this response to OPTIONS: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:00:00 GMT Server: Apache/2.5.x X-Server-Load: 0.999 …the balancer might decide to use a backend that is reporting a lower load. -- Tim Bannister – is...@jellybaby.net
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