[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, we'd like to balance on CPU usage of tomcat servers that Apache is > load balancing. Or, even, by having each tomcat app communicate with the > balancer to tell it how busy it is. > > Our problem is that we receive a variety of requests, some of which are > very resource intensive and tie up that tomcat for a good while. Hence a > round-robin or balance factors algorithm are not very effective. > > Do you have any ideas of a possible solution? >
There's been talk, at least on the HTTPD side of things, to have the balancer mechanism be open to external weighting methods (for the httpd proxy module)... But it's only gone so far as "it sure would be nice." -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "There 10 types of people: those who read binary and everyone else." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]