On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:10:50PM +0530, Sachin Shetty wrote: > Thanks Lukas. > > Yes, I was hoping to workaround by setting a smaller maxqueue limit and > queue timeout. > > So what other options do we have, I need to: > 1. Send all requests for a host (mytest.mydomain.com) to one backend as > long as it can serve. > 2. If the backend is swamped, it should go to any other backend available.
I'm wondering if we should not try to implement this when the hash type is set to "consistent". The principle of the consistent hash precisely is that we want the closest node but we know that sometimes things will be slightly redistributed (eg: when adding/removing a server in the farm). So maybe it would make sense to specify that when using consistent hash, if a server has a maxqueue parameter and this maxqueue is reached, then look for the closest server. That might be OK with caches as well as the ones close to each other tend to share a few objects when the farm size changes. What do others think ? Willy
