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I think it might be worth adding to this some discussion of how the load balancer itself handles the load, and the related fact that _within_ some backends, the

I think it might be worth adding to this some discussion of how the load balancer itself handles the load, and the related fact that _within_ some backends, the responsibility for load-balancing falls on rich clients that maintain knowledge of the server sets to which they can route requests.

adql 4y ago
And the fact that you should tune for loadbalancer to queue and eventually drop, not your app server. Then in case of leastconn there will be no dropped connections as long as total server capacity < incoming traffic.