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| <name>mod_lbmethod_bytraffic</name> |
| <description>Weighted Traffic Counting load balancer scheduler algorithm for <module |
| >mod_proxy_balancer</module></description> |
| <status>Extension</status> |
| <sourcefile>mod_lbmethod_bytraffic.c</sourcefile> |
| <identifier>lbmethod_bytraffic_module</identifier> |
| <compatibility>Split off from <module>mod_proxy_balancer</module> in 2.3</compatibility> |
| |
| <summary> |
| <p>This module does not provide any configuration directives of its own. |
| It requires the services of <module>mod_proxy_balancer</module>, and |
| provides the <code>bytraffic</code> load balancing method.</p> |
| </summary> |
| <seealso><module>mod_proxy</module></seealso> |
| <seealso><module>mod_proxy_balancer</module></seealso> |
| |
| <section id="traffic"> |
| <title>Weighted Traffic Counting Algorithm</title> |
| <p>Enabled via <code>lbmethod=bytraffic</code>, the idea behind this |
| scheduler is very similar to the Request Counting method, with |
| the following changes:</p> |
| |
| <p><dfn>lbfactor</dfn> is <em>how much traffic, in bytes, we want |
| this worker to handle</em>. This is also a normalized value |
| representing their "share" of the amount of work to be done, |
| but instead of simply counting the number of requests, we take |
| into account the amount of traffic this worker has either seen |
| or produced.</p> |
| |
| <p>If a balancer is configured as follows:</p> |
| |
| <table style="data"> |
| <tr><th>worker</th> |
| <th>a</th> |
| <th>b</th> |
| <th>c</th></tr> |
| <tr><th>lbfactor</th> |
| <td>1</td> |
| <td>2</td> |
| <td>1</td></tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <p>Then we mean that we want <var>b</var> to process twice the |
| amount of bytes than <var>a</var> or <var>c</var> should. It does |
| not necessarily mean that <var>b</var> would handle twice as |
| many requests, but it would process twice the I/O. Thus, the |
| size of the request and response are applied to the weighting |
| and selection algorithm.</p> |
| |
| <p>Note: input and output bytes are weighted the same.</p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| </modulesynopsis> |