Load Balancing Algorithms in VCL

[Shiraz Kanga]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Shiraz Kanga <skanga at gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> In order to support these VCL will need access to various statistics like
>> * Number of active requests per server
>> * Number of requests per second per server
>> * Avg response time per server
>> * Bandwidth per server
>>
>> Are these stats available in the VCL environment?
>>     
>
> Not presently, and our current take on backend load balancing is that
> it is best done in C, probably with pluggable algorithms (or directors
> as they are called in the code).
>
> DES
>   
Thanks for your reply. Would you mind explaining why load balancing is 
"best done in C" especially since VCL should have the same performance 
as C as it goes through the C compiler.

shiraz
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