>> ~300 Transactions and 4-50 Sessions are, like, nothing if your instance is 
>> up for more than 5 mins?
> 
> It was just a quick picture...

How could I have known :)

>> All it takes is one users looking at a lot of pages to skew these figures.
> 
> That would skew the # of transactions, yes.  But it should not skew the 
> creation of new sessions across instances.  It is the session allocation that 
> is problematic, IMO.

Yeah, but from your figures, you might have simply had a few long runners and a 
few quick exiters. Can you try "ab"? This should show things with more accurate 
numbers.

ab -n 500 http://whereever 

>> Apart from that, I dimly remember the host and port setting also influenced 
>> the load distribution.
> 
> For Round Robin, it follows the instance order of configuration.  If you 
> configure all the instances on Server A, then the ones on Server B, then C, 
> it will load up Server A first.  You need to interleave the configurations.  
> Is that what you were thinking of?

Yeah right. One trick was to number the instances not <host><port> but 
<port><host>.

Cheers, Anjo _______________________________________________
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