| | Best Practices Part 3: Best Practices for Application Load Testing and Profiling for Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Based on the average response time of each server, the Web connector sends all subsequent requests to the server with the best response time. |
 | | The Web connector maintains an average response time, calculated during a time window, for the server to which it sends requests, and it starts sending requests to the next-best server (as it previously calculated) if the server currently servicing requests does not provide the best response time. |
 | | When load balancing is based on component response time (the default configuration), the first problem is remedied, and the Web connector maintains statistics about which instance is the "best" to service a given component. |
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