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Richard_Jones
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Jan 19, 2007

Limit user sessions to each node

Here is the problem I am trying to solve:     We have a pool of 6 servers. Each server can handle 400 concurrent users sessions. We have an array of pool member user counts, and we are trackin...
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Richard_Jones
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Jan 23, 2007
Thanks Colin

 

 

I think I may have found a way around this. Rather than actually change the status of the node, I simply check the current tasks of each server (tasks is a value that I created and track), and send the user to the server with the fewest tasks. Then if all servers have a task count higher than the limit, then the user receives static HTML content back saying the service is currently unavailable.

 

 

Thanks for the reply, though!