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author | Nathan Lasseter <nathan.je.lasseter@googlemail.com> | 2011-01-28 19:46:31 +0000 |
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committer | Nathan Lasseter <nathan.je.lasseter@googlemail.com> | 2011-01-28 19:46:31 +0000 |
commit | d17fe944ccbfb25ff535d04aaee616df6672044b (patch) | |
tree | 892eb40a219254c8c0d8885cf19136a1f01f657c /README | |
parent | d0aff34c5c7f08e341428010e70a35910d9a20ca (diff) |
Added TODO and textiled docs
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@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -erlbal is an erlang load balancer. - - -start_bal/0 spawns a balancer. -stop_bal/1 takes a balancer and kills all of its servers and then kills the balancer. -list_servers/1 takes a balancer and returns a list of the servers it balances over. - -start_server/2 takes a balancer, a node and a function and spawns a server on the node to serve the function. -stop_server/2 takes a balancer and a server PID and stops the server and removes it from the balancer. - -make_request/1 takes a balancer and returns the response from the server. -make_request/2 takes a balancer and an argument and returns the response from the server. - - -The balancer round robins requests between erlang processes. -When it receives a request, it forwards it on to the next server in the round robin. -The server then runs the function with the argument passed to it and returns a response to the balancer. -The balancer forwards the response back to the requestor. - -The function arg could be anything, so you can pass multiple args in a tuple or list, etc. |