Load-Balancers
I was today taking a look into several load-balancers for a project of a colleague. I was especially interested in simple http load-balancers which would be easy to hack or easily remotely controllable. After searching freshmeat and for simple load-balancers in java and python in google. I turned up the following:
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Pen: http://siag.nu/pen/
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Distributer: http://distributor.sourceforge.net/
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Pound: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
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Pythondirector: http://pythondirector.sourceforge.net/
Pen allows remote configuration via telnet and seems to be well suited for our project. I still have to check how it handles connections and slots - can we emulate some kind of queue with it. It produces very nice statistics sending -USR1 signal to it.
One of our students (Mikhail Kasatkin) working on a load-balancer project pointed me to the following resources (I have to admit that I am not a great friend of Apache webserver, but this is a matter of taste):
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