https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair

The fair load balancer module for nginx
https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair

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The fair load balancer module for nginx

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair
• Owner: gnosek
• Created: 2008-03-22T15:51:21.000Z (almost 17 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-12T01:41:17.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-20T00:08:03.461Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://nginx.localdomain.pl
• Size: 182 KB
• Stars: 489
• Watchers: 26
• Forks: 151
• Open Issues: 26
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
Nginx Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

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Description:

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The Nginx fair proxy balancer enhances the standard round-robin load balancer provided

with Nginx so that it will track busy back end servers (e.g. Thin, Ebb, Mongrel)

and balance the load to non-busy server processes.

Further information can be found on http://nginx.localdomain.pl/

Ezra Zygmuntowicz has a good writeup of the fair proxy load balancer and how to use it here:

http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel

Installation:

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You'll need to re-compile Nginx from source to include this module.

Modify your compile of Nginx by adding the following directive

(modified to suit your path of course):

./configure --with-http_ssl_module --add-module=/absolute/path/to/nginx-upstream-fair

make

make install

Usage:

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Change your Nginx config file's upstream block to include the 'fair' directive:

upstream mongrel {

    fair;

    server 127.0.0.1:5000;

    server 127.0.0.1:5001;

    server 127.0.0.1:5002;

  }

If you encounter any issues, please report them using the bugtracker at

http://nginx.localdomain.pl/

Contributing:

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Git source repositories:

http://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair/tree/master

http://git.localdomain.pl/?p=nginx-upstream-fair.git;a=summary

Please feel free to fork the project at GitHub and submit pull requests or patches.