Load Balancing

Weighted Round Robin

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Overview

A round-robin method that varies the distribution ratio according to each server's performance.

Details

An extension of round robin that varies the distribution ratio according to a weight configured for each server. Higher-performing servers are given a larger weight and assigned more requests. Since it simply divides requests according to a fixed weight ratio (say, 3:2:1) rather than monitoring actual response time or CPU load, it can drift from what's really happening moment to moment.

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