[zeromq-dev] Load Balancing/Distributing/Queuing Algos: A Discussion

[Martin Sustrik]

Stefan,

> Currently zmq does loadbalancing with the assumption that everything
> connected is of equal quality,
> currently just round-robin'izes over that set equally, which only ever
> really makes if you have a rack of identical hardware.
>
> What I'd like is a generic 'choice' device, which will continually rate
> all sockets based on stuff that zmq can
> already figure out behind the scenes, like latency/throughput/idletime
> etc etc..

Can you provide the use case?

Martin