[geeks] the "pen" TCP load balancer

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Wed Nov 6 14:59:18 CST 2002


woods at weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:

> > woods at weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> > I tried pen a few years ago and found it didn't work quite right - for
> > some reason packets were getting dropped.
> 
> It has improved enormously in the last little while.  Earlier this year
> we found and fixed a file descriptor leak and one of those once-in-a-
> million corrupted stream bugs and fed the patches back to the developer.
> 

Cool!  I should go revisit pen again and see how it's improved.  If it can
work reliably, it might be time to implement it here.

Thanks!

-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com



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