On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:44:58PM -0700, David Birdsong wrote: > I know it's not as precise as using weights, but dynamic rebalancing > of traffic could also be done with health checks. You could write > something like this in 2 hours or less. > > Run a simple daemon on a server that can take a set of metrics and > decide whether it wants to be in path or not. This daemon could touch > a health check file or remove it.
Very true, especially with "http-check disable-on-404" with which you can set the server weight to zero without breaking existing sessions. I'd be interested in anyone's feedback when using such a method, that's a very good idea ! Willy
