Brad is dead on here. JRun clustering is not the best solution for most things. There are a few edge cases where it can be helpful, especially if you're willing to spend money, but generally, I would recommend a hardware load balancer like an F5.
-- nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ On Dec 12, 2007 2:29 PM, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If CF8 clustering is like CF7, I believe you are giving it too much > credit. > > The JRUN connectors set up in your web server will not give request to > an instance which has been stopped, but it pays absolutely no regard to > the "load" of that instance. > > I was disappointed when I found that out. > > ~Brad > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:52 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: clustering issue > > I have a CF8 cluster set up, and one of my instances just locked up on > me for unknown reasons (at this time). > > While the instance was nopt responding, new requests coming into the > web site received no response, instead of being directed to the > 'working" instance. Once I successfully stopped the errant instance, > requests went through to the other instance just fine. > > Why is this? Shouldn't the listener know that one of the clusters is > not responding and direct the requests to the other? > > Or am I giving the coldfusion clustering capabilities way too much > credit. > > My installation is CF8 Enterprise on Windows 2K3, installed in > multi-server mode. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294646 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
