Re: Crazy Values in backhand-status and question on redirecting

"Theo E. Schlossnagle" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:33:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-backhand.general
Organization Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Heiko Jansen wrote:
> I was trying to see if it would send stats only to the one denoted 
> server. Indeed it worked, but it´s not intended to run this way.
> 
> Another question: how is the load of the servers calculated? Is it 
> just the load in the moment when the stats are send or is there a 
> way to get the average load of the last x minutes?

Last 1 minute average.

You can use byBusyChildren for a rough estimate of the current run-queue 
length.  If you Apache instances are in heavy use, then that will accurately 
represent how busy the machine is.

Note, you will likely need to perform a graceful restart for those numbers to 
be available.

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