Re: least connections first balancing

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:54:06PM +0100, Romuald du Song wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 5:12 AM, Willy Tarreau <w#1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:53:01PM -0500, James Quacinella wrote:
> > > Dan Zubey wrote:
> > > >My interem solution until leastconn is merged in is to have a script
> > > >read the status of haproxy, and re-write the config file and weight the
> > > >servers, so that slow servers arn't used.
> > > >
> > > >Right now I'm just soft-restarting haproxy every few minutes, but I
> > wish
> > > >there was a way to tell it to change the value of just a single
> > server's
> > > >weight.
> > >
> > > You can add another person to the list of people who would like to see
> > > that feature. Changing HAProxy's run time parameters on the fly via some
> > > interface (either CLI, XML-RPC, etc) would definitely be a great feature
> > > to see with HAProxy.
> >
> > Yes, the most wanted feature is to be able to enable/disable a server on
> > the fly. A basic CLI is planned on a UNIX socket. That's why for the stats
> > page, you have to send "show stats" and not just connect :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Willy
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Willy,
> As it seems to answer the question I was about to submit to the list I take
> this opportunity
> to be fixed.
> When you talk about to enable/disable a server on the fly the server might
> be perfectly OK
> in regards to health check but be disabled by the administrator and
> established connections
> not closed and new connections forwarded to available servers ? A typical
> procedure to have
> servers updated while keeping service alive.
> Is my understanding correct ?

Hi Romuald,

yes, it's exactly that.

Cheers,
Willy Received on 2007/11/20 22:29