Need to underatand laod balancing

[sudheerk84]

Hi ,

I am trying to use mod cluster with tomcat.

I have teh setup as follows

1 apache(httpd) with two tomcats. and i want to enable session stickyness.

Now what is teh default way of loadblancing .Think i open browser and start sending requests from different machine , to which tomcat will my first 10 requests be sent ?( tomcat1 or tomcat2)

Can some1 explain me mathematically how will first 10 requests(from different sessions) be handled ?.[i do understand since i have session sticky requests from same browser end up in teh same tomcat]

[jfclere]

mod_cluster will try to give the same load on each Tomcat so you should get 5 to tomcat1 and 5 to tomcat2.

[sudheerk84]

I was expecting teh same , but it didnt happen with  teh sample applciation i wrote. I actually tried from 3 browsers and all requests went to a single tomcat.

I read that the default load balacing stratergy is based on connectors . I need some more infomartion on that. [i was using sticky sessions]

[pferraro]

The BusyConnectorLoadMetric generate its load factor from the number of threads that are actively servicing requests.