Load balancing algorithms

steux · June 17, 2010, 4:22pm

Hi everyone!
As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx
provides a
algorithm other than simple round-robin?

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steux · June 17, 2010, 4:27pm

Hi everyone!
As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx provides
a
algorithm other than simple round-robin?

Yes
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamFairModule
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamConsistentHash
EY Balancer Module http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master

rr

steux · June 17, 2010, 4:35pm

2010/6/16 Reinis R. [email protected]:

Hi everyone!
As load balancer for other phisical back-end servers, does nginx provides
a
algorithm other than simple round-robin?

Yes
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamFairModule
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamConsistentHash
EY Balancer Module Â http://github.com/ry/nginx-ey-balancer/tree/master
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