load-balance behavior

[Alan DeKok]

Alexandre Chapellon wrote:
> Does the "load-balance" type in home_server_pool can handle when one the
> home_server of the pool is down?

  Yes.

> Does it loose tickets in such a situation or can i consider it as a
> "fail-over" pool too?

  "load-balance" for home_server_pools will skip home servers that are down.

   e.g. with 4 servers in a load balance pool, and 1 is down, the
requests will be split 1/3, 1/3, and 1/3 between the servers that are up.

  Alan DeKok.