Re: Trying to combine byLogWindow and bySession - no luck

On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Tilman Kastner wrote:
> I try to figure out the best config for our
> backhand cluster.
>
> Two things have to be accomplished:
> -Good distribution of load
> -Session stickyness
>
> So I tried:
>
> byAge
> bySession
> byRandom
> byLogWindow
> byBusyChildren
>
> The problem:
> If the bySession directive matches, the server list will
> contain one entry only. If this one-member list is processed
> by byLogWindow, it results in a zero-member list
> (seems to be a bug to me) -> user gets an error.
>
> If I try instead:
>
> byAge
> byRandom
> byLogWindow
> byBusyChildren
> bySession
>
> there's a good chance not to catch the existing session, as the
> hosting machine might have been dropped from the list by
> byLogWindow
>
> Any ideas anyone?

The behaviour you are seeing in byLogWindow was indeed a bug.  It has 
been fixed in CVS.  Use the CVS version.

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