Re: Best way to reduce a server's participation..

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:37, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Ok, We have a two tiered system here where we have 5 boxes in front that
> handle most web requests, and then a number of boxes on the back that do
> only backhanded requests for certain pages.
> 
> We do also have a couple of backhanded pages that get sent between the
> frontend boxes and backend boxes to try and smooth out the load when one
> of them gets hammered (they are not load balanced, each one serves a
> different set of users).
> 
> My question is, I'd like to see the front end machines discounted, so
> that they only get hit when things get really bad on the backend. My
> first thought is to just manually adjust the Arriba on these machines.
> This would work for now, but if I ever wanted to balance other things
> fully to these machines, I'd be out of luck.
> 
> So, is there a by???? directive that helps me with this. Maybe it needs
> to be a custom module?

I'd write a custom module.

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