Lukas Tribus wrote:

[dd]

> 
> > It would be nice however to understand minconn/fullconn too. If a
> > backend has several servers with identical minconn, maxconn and weight,
> > what's the point of having minconn? The load will be always distributed
> > evenly between all the servers notwithstanding minconn/fullconn,
> > correct?
> 
> If the load is REALLY the same, sure. That's just never the case in
> real life for a number of reasons:
> 
> - different load-balancing algorithms
> - different client behavior
> - session persistence
> - long-running TCP connections (websocket, et all)

Oh, that was the missing link to understand the thing.

> 
> But yes, like I already mentioned, minconn/fullconn is addressing a
> very specific requirement that I don't think comes up very often.


Thank you Lukas, you have been very helpful.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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