Ruby Forum NGINX > Re: Fair Proxy Balancer

Posted by Rt Ibmer (Guest)
on 06.05.2008 20:45
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>Wouldn't setting your proxy timeouts low solve this scenario?  If there is an application server with poor >performance, it will be marked as failed and nginx will divert requests to your other 10/100/1000 servers.

No because we are dealing in tiny ms here that is still in the 
acceptable range.  If upstreams x and y are serving requests in 3ms, but 
z is serving them in 50ms, I don't want z off line because that is still 
acceptable and better than having the box offline.  However for maximum 
performance I'd rather 'fair' send requests only to x and y, 
occassinoally checking z to see if it comes back in line with response 
times of x.



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