Commit 5536f90b authored by Jim Jagielski's avatar Jim Jagielski
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    <title>Pending Request Counting Algorithm</title>

    <p>Enabled via <code>lbmethod=bybusyness</code>, this scheduler keeps
    track of how many requests each worker is assigned at present. A new
    track of how many requests each worker is currently assigned at present. A new
    request is automatically assigned to the worker with the lowest
    number of active requests. This is useful in the case of workers
    that queue incoming requests independently of Apache, to ensure that
    queue length stays even and a request is always given to the worker
    most likely to service it fastest.</p>
    most likely to service it the fastest and reduce latency.</p>

    <p>In the case of multiple least-busy workers, the statistics (and
    weightings) used by the Request Counting method are used to break the
    tie. Over time, the distribution of work will come to resemble that
    characteristic of <code>byrequests</code>.</p>
    characteristic of <code>byrequests</code> (as implemented
    by <module>mod_lbmethod_byrequests</module>).</p>

</section>

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    this worker to handle</em>. This is also a normalized value
    representing their "share" of the amount of work to be done,
    but instead of simply counting the number of requests, we take
    into account the amount of traffic this worker has seen.</p>
    into account the amount of traffic this worker has either seen
    or produced.</p>

    <p>If a balancer is configured as follows:</p>
    
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    size of the request and response are applied to the weighting
    and selection algorithm.</p>

    <p>Note: input and output bytes are weighted the same.</p>

</section>

</modulesynopsis>