Is `balance leastconn` still not recommend for http?

2025-03-12 Thread Aleksandar Lazic
Hi. In the doc is this text. https://docs.haproxy.org/3.1/configuration.html#4-balance ``` #snip leastconn The server with the lowest number of connections receives the connection. Round-robin is performed within groups of servers of the same load to ensure that

Re: Is `balance leastconn` still not recommend for http?

2025-03-12 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi! On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 10:34:04PM -0400, John Lauro wrote: > As to `balance leastconn`, I don't know if it's recommended but it's > what I normally use. My backends are often not equal (some have more > horsepower (different model physical servers, different loads from vms > running on them,

Re: Is `balance leastconn` still not recommend for http?

2025-03-12 Thread John Lauro
As to `balance leastconn`, I don't know if it's recommended but it's what I normally use. My backends are often not equal (some have more horsepower (different model physical servers, different loads from vms running on them, etc), some higher latency because of different cities), etc... and leas

Re: Question about mimalloc (pronounced "me-malloc") and HAProxy

2025-03-12 Thread Aleksandar Lazic
Hi Willy On 2025-02-08 (Sa.) 14:18, Aleksandar Lazic wrote: Hi Willy. On 2025-02-08 (Sa.) 05:49, Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi Alex, [snipp] I'll ping the few heavy users who experienced watchdogs in free(), in case they want to give it a try. Great, I'm very curious if this library could hav