A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel

A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel:

A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel Posted by ezmobius Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:50:00 GMT Nginx is my favorite webserver as you astute reader all probably know. It’s very fast, light and rock solid in production. My only complaint was that the proxy modue was round robin only. This means that if you had 3 mongrels and one of them performed and action that took say 20 seconds, for that 20 seconds every 3rd request would get stuck in line behind the mongrel doing the long blocking request. This is because nginx was merrily doing round robin and didn’t care if a mongrel was busy or not. Now we all know that you should not have actions that take this long in our apps right? Of course we do, but that doesn’t stop it from happening quite a bit in a lot of apps I’ve seen. So EngineYard.com put out a bounty on getting a fair proxy balancer that would keep track of when a mongre...

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