[jetty-discuss] Re: Load Balancing Jetty

[John P. <dev...@ho...>]

Greg Wilkins <gregw <at> mortbay.com> writes:

> But when the business rules are simple, then I see little reason to get that
> far away from the kernel.

A very sensible approach.  On second thoughts, the balancing algorithm I have
described would require an even higher level approach than I could add to the
experimental Jetty code.  I require the load balancing algorithm to understand
http requests and calculate a sliding average response time for only certain
paths (ie search operations).

My application does not need to serve huge numbers of pages (or I wouldn't be
using virtual machines!) but if one servlet server slows to a crawl then it
needs to be by-passed.

Maybe I should look at the Tomcat loadbalancer.

John.