All LBmethods have an "age" function which is designed to appropriately "age" the data so that things even out after awhile. Of course, right now, none actually *uses* that.
But I think the reason is because there is no real good way, currently, in mod_proxy to do that... Well, in the LBmethod I was hacking away on, it really DOES need its age function, and currently it's doing so via mod_watchdog. But the more I think of it, ideally, mod_proxy *itself* should create the watchdog thread and just handle the age itself, rather than having a LBmethod provider having to be responsible for creating that (it also kind of destroys the abstraction that pure providers should have, imo)... Anyway... anyone opposed to me adding this to mod_proxy in trunk with hope towards it backporting to 2.4? It does mean that mod_proxy will now have a dependency on mod_watchdog.
