On 07/28/2017 11:13 AM, Frank Even wrote: > I may very well have missed something, but a lot of this isn't clear > to me in the documentation. I appreciate the clarification though.
No, you are right, it's not clear in our documentation, I need to take the time to fix it. > SO, if I understand correctly, if I want the weight variable to have > any meaning at all, I need to change the load balancing algorithm, > correct? Correct, the weight is only used by the wrandom and whashed policies at the moment. > What policy would be best suited to using weights? Is that efficient? > Or should I just keep it like this, remove weights, and deploy an > ordered policy? My best advice would be to have a look at the existing policies based on you exact needs. If you can't find a policy matching your needs, you can write a new one in Lua or, if you think it would make sense to add a new one in dnsdist, open a feature request. Policies written in Lua are not a lot slower than those written in C++ given that they are written carefully. They do increase lock contention between threads a bit however, but that's only relevant if you serve a huge number of QPS. -- Remi Gacogne PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/
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