On 2/11/08 8:42 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if you want to worry about smart load balancing, try to load balance based
> on the nature of the URL query string ... make you load balancer pick
> a slave by hashing on the "q" param for example.

This is very effective. We used this at Infoseek ten years ago.

An easy way to do this is to have the client code do the hash and
add it as an extra parameter. Then have the load balancer switch
based on that param. Something like this:

   &preferred_server=2

wunder

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