Thomas Ledbetter wrote: > With a rounb robin policy on a hardware load balancer, once the > connection is routed to a specific 'worker bee', if that machine times > out, the request will fail, and the mail wont get scanned. However, > more intelligent hardware load balancing setups can monitor the work > on each node, and take it out of service as necessary. > > What methods do other people use?
We use Linux Virtual Server. > Also, when running a round-robin based cluster, is there any problem > having a mix of machines with different performance capacities? i.e. > If I have a 10 node cluster, and 3 of the servers are much slower than > the others, will it impact performance of the cluster as a whole? You could do some weighting by having the more powerful machines listed more often. /Per Jessen, Zürich
