Load Balancing Algorithms in VCL

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <47BB56F8.4080902 at gmail.com>, Shiraz Kanga writes:
>
>Will it be possible to implement custom Load Balancing algorithms in 
>VCL? There are numerous algorithms that can be used to distribute load like
>Round Robin, Weighted Round Robin, Least Connections, Fastest Response, 
>Most Bandwidth, etc.

The plan is to implement such "directors" in C (we already have "random")
and I'm not convinced that doing it in VCL makes much sense, but can
be persuaded otherwise by good arguments.

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