Simple Algorithms - Load Balanced Systems
July 13th, 2008 | by admin |A variety of scheduling algorithms are used by load balancers to determine which server to send the request. Simple algorithms, (as if there are such things), include random choice also knows as round robin. In more sophisticated load balanced systems load balancers may take a number of different factors into account such as recent response times, geographic location, a server’s reported load, number of active connections, how much traffic has been assigned to it, and a host of other factors as well. In many cases, high performance systems may find it necessary to use multiple layers of load balancing to get the job done.
