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Craig_Hammer_10
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May 03, 2005

Need suggestions on selection of alternate pool

I have a multi-tier application that has somewhat regular traffic spikes. The web servers can handle anything I throw at them, but the 2nd-tier application runs out of horsepower.     I ...
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JRahm
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May 10, 2005
If you have hard limits on the number of connections each server can support, it is better to define these on the node definition. Use the Connection Limit setting. I try to use the iRules only when a standard feature can't do the job.