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6 Perlbal::Manual::HighPriority - Perlbal's high/low priority queueing
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9 VERSION
10 Perlbal 1.78.
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12 DESCRIPTION
13 This document describes Perlbal's high/low priority queueing system.
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15 Queuing system
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17 Perlbal has three queues: normal, high priority and low priority.
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19 As their names suggest, this means that usually requests get to the
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21 requests going to a different queue that gets ahead of the normal one
22 and a low priority queue that only gets done when the high and normal
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25 In a nutshell, whenever Perlbal needs to select which request to take
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30 High priority with cookies
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32 Perlbal can use cookies to determine if a request should go to the high
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35 The parameters to configure this are "high_priority_cookie" and
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40 SET myservice.high_priority_cookie = name_of_the_field
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45 SET myservice.high_priority_cookie = highpriority
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48 High priority with plugins
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50 The plugin Perlbal::Plugin::Highpri supports making requests high
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54 Queue relief
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56 Sometimes if the high priority queue is really busy, the standard queue
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58 prevent this. When there are "queue_relief_size" or more connections in
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68 "make_high_priority" and "make_low_priority" in Perlbal::Manual::Hooks,
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