If you want fairer load balancing that takes into account CPU utilization, perhaps you can set up a health check page that returns the CPU utilization (which doesn't seem to be very easy, but you can return the number of currently running requests, or number of current sessions, etc), and have ServerIron distribute the requests based on those values. I haven't personally tried this, but I'm guessing it should be possible.
====== Actually, I would be more interested in learning how to make my JRun clustering aware of things like CPU usage. I think what I might do is use the hardware load balancer to load balance my IIS installs (one copy of IIS running on each web server) and then each IIS install will be bound to my JRun cluster. I could care less how balanced the web servers are-- we could probably use a single install of IIS and it wouldn't break a sweat at our traffic levels. I just like have multiples for fail-over. I am more concerned with the CF Instances being proportionate. I always thought that JRun handled the clustering algorithm for your instances but from what Jochem was telling me today, that is actually handled by the Web server connectors between IIS and JRun. I would absolutely love to know if I can organize my cluster balancing to be aware of CPU etc. ~Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
