i don't think lbfactor is related to the method but more to the servers hardware:
lbfactor - weighed-round-robin load balancing where high lbfactor means stronger machine (that is going to handle more requests) so if A and B are identical in terms of hardware you use same lbfactor On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Tushar Chavan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Experts, > > We are setting up load balacing with Apache > > Apache will pass request to servers A & B. > > Now if I choose lbmethod=byrequest or bytraffic, how I will set lbfactor? > > How Apache server will come to know how much request to pass to server A & > server B? > > Best Regards, > Tushar > >
