Properly specified, these weight factors give some sense of the amount of work that an individual WebSpeed Transaction Server instance can handle. For example, the following table shows the effect of weight factors specified for three WebSpeed Transaction Server instances registered for the same application service.
Table 51. Weight factors based on percentage
WebSpeed Transaction Server name
Weight factor
% of time selected
WS1
20
20
WS2
20
20
WS3
60
60
The selection algorithm used by the NameServer guarantees that WS1 and WS2 are each selected 20% of the time and WS3 is selected 60% of the time. Thus, if the sum of weight factors for all WebSpeed Transaction Server instances that support the same application adds up to 100, each weight factor specifies the exact percentage of time that the NameServer selects the given WebSpeed Transaction Server instance over time.
