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Himanshu Gupta
Load utilization of the least connections algo

Himanshu Gupta

Jan 14, 2025

I believe this might not be the most efficient algorithm in terms of resource utilization. Reason being, it checks the server with the fewest active connections, however, a server with the fewest active connections might be the one with the most capacity ??

Is my reasoning correct, or am I missing something ??

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muralidharghanta 9 months ago

All other types make a difference at scale. It would depend on the application that we wanted to support.

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This is suited for web applications where the session must persist and ensure user requests are distributed equally.

When dynamic workloads (like API/data p...