| Lod balancing in RAC [message #164257] | 
			Wed, 22 March 2006 10:48   | 
		 
		
			
				
				
				
					
						
						lvilcan
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		Hi, 
 
we are running 10g RAC on a 3-node cluster on HP-UX 11.11. 
RAC is configured using both client-side and server-side load balancing. Server side load balancing should distribute user sessions based on system load (not based on number of sessions). 
 
Does anybody know how this actually balancing is done ? What "system load" means? Is it the CPU usage, or CPU idle time or run-queue length or average load shown in "top", or a combination of more items ? 
 
Thanks, 
Liliana
		
		
		
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			| Re: Load balancing in RAC [message #166181 is a reply to message #164257] | 
			Wed, 05 April 2006 01:03   | 
		 
		
			
				
				
				
					
						
						Frank Naude
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		Server side load balancing is based on CPU usage. PMON periodically updates all registered listeners with the node's CPU utilization. The listener then directs connections to the least loaded node.
		
		
		
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