Hi there, On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
> We have a web app which consists of some very expensive dynamic > pages. Network bandwidth isn't an issue, but web-server CPU load is. > [snip] > the front-end server proxies to in round-robin style. With our > typical load this has solved the problem quite nicely. > [snip] > under extremely high load the system is unstable and "falls over" > onto one or the other of the two backend servers > Any suggestions for a simple method of allocating a higher number of > requests to the machine with the lower load? Have you searched the archives? There was a thread talking about load balancing earlier in the year, see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modperl/message/49334 for example which might help. 73, Ged.
