Hi All,

can anyone let me know what is the maximum number of agents(connection limit) that we can configure in webfocus?


Thanks,
Arunvijay

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Totally dependant on the resources you have available on your system.
The more memory and cpu capacity you have the more you can run.

Thanks JG. it will be gr8 if u can provide me some doc link where we can the info like - say if i have X GB , and Y GHz , then we can have max of 100 agents.

Thanks,
Arunvijay

Arun If you go to the WebFocus server console and click the help icon you can access
the server installation documentation which gives general memory guide lines (not linux unfortunately).

However a better idea is to run some scalability testing.
This can be done directly from the console.

Check out the server administration documentation under

How to Stress Test Server Performance.

quote:

it will be gr8 if u can provide me some doc link where we can the info like - say if i have X GB , and Y GHz , then we can have max of 100 agents

If it were only that easy. Vendors usually don't provide this type of information because so many variables are involved. # of CPU's, CPU speed, memory, available memory, competing resources, etc., etc. You'll just have to do some testing as JG suggests. IBI provides some basic tools.

And one of the biggest variables that you can have in this area is the type of work that needs to be done by an agent.
I've seen agents use no mre than 3 or 4 MB, but I've also seen agents grow up to almost a GB. Anything in between is also possible. It all depends on what you want teh agent(s) to do as well as on your environment.

My current batch is from 12 to 22+ meg.

Thanks folks.

Found in the documentation that every agent will occupy 1.2 MB space . Based on the our free memory space and agent space , we had increased the # of agents to 100. So far so good. Thanks all

With regards,
Arunvijay

Again, that is just the amount that is required for the agent to exist in memory. If the agent is doing anything (which they usually do) then they could occupy MUCH more than that. I've seen them over 100 MB for some reports. If you're running that many concurrent, you should be especially sensitive to this.

I agree with Darin. See my post above.

Additionally, all of those agents will be using temporary space on disk so if they're using ON TABLE HOLD for large amounts of data, you could also run out of temporary disk space if the allocation is not large enough.