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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:32:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
To: dev@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: Proxy Load Balancer
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Graham Leggett wrote:

> > (1) The proxy balancer directives are implemented in mod_proxy.c,
> >     not proxy_balancer.c.  Was this necessary?
>
> proxy_balancer should in theory provide the algorithm to do the
> balancing, while the generic directives to specify the members of the
> cluster could be generically specified.

Indeed.  But not all of us have a cluster or want clustering code.

> > (2) ISTR some discussion of generic connection pooling, but I don't
> >     see it in the code.  Am I missing something, or is this still TBD?
>
> The connection pool is there, it's implemented using apr_reslist.

/me kicks himself for not looking inside proxy_util.c :-(

Thanks.

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Nick Kew