Network Load Balancing Question

I have a couple of MOSS servers that we've put into a NLB Cluster. But we're
noticing that the processor on one server peaks out and the other doesn't
take a hit at all when this happens this is usually when a search crawling
service kicks up. Does NLB balance these requests? I know in the 2000
version it did not load balance Processor requests but I thought that was
something that changed in the 2003 version. Any help or information is
appreciated.

Regards,
JP

"JPFastball34" <> wrote in message
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>I have a couple of MOSS servers that we've put into a NLB Cluster. But
>we're
> noticing that the processor on one server peaks out and the other doesn't
> take a hit at all when this happens this is usually when a search crawling
> service kicks up. Does NLB balance these requests?

Only if you tell it the protocol being used and configure the protocol to be
balanced.

> I know in the 2000
> version it did not load balance Processor requests but I thought that was
> something that changed in the 2003 version. Any help or information is
> appreciated.

No change in 2003 or 2008. Sorry.


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