Re: Balance by percentage?

From: Patrick Viet <patrick.viet#gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:29:06 +0100


> >I would like be able to balance the traffic between two HTTP servers
> >such that 15% of the traffic goes to one server and 85% of the time to
> >the other server. I think I should be able to do this with the weight
> >options but I am not sure what weight values to use? Any advice?

Math would even say :
85 / 15 can be scaled down to weights 17 and 3. Same concern as Krzysztof : if you enable persistance only the session will be balanced in that way. But that's just the same as any load balancer. Shouldn't be a big deal.
(except if the 15% server is very weak)

Regards,

Patrick Received on 2008/02/23 20:29

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