How to Enable Load Balancing


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To alleviate the performance degradation resulting from heavy system traffic, you may want to implement a load balancing algorithm on your entire application. With load balancing, a load factor is applied to each service within the system, and you can track the total load on every server. Every service request is sent to the qualified server that is least loaded.

To implement system-wide load balancing, complete the following procedure.

Run your application for an extended period of time.
Note the average amount of time it takes for each service to be performed.
In the RESOURCES section of the configuration file:

Note: This algorithm, although effective, is expensive and should be used only when necessary, that is, only when a service is offered by servers that use more than one queue. Services offered by only one server, or by multiple servers, all of which belong to the same MSSQ (Multiple Server, Single Queue) set, do not need load balancing.