Re: updated load balancing qmail-qmqpc.c mods

[James Raftery]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:22AM +0000, JuanE wrote:
> This way, you will redistribute the load randomly to all
> servers and not just the next one on the list.

Not quite. If choose truly randomly the liklehood of you choosing the
same server /every/ time is the same as the liklihood of choosing a
nice even spread across the servers. This isn't what you want.

Regards,

james
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