I've built a two server Biztalk server group. They are identical machines. B
iztalk shares the same SQLserver database. I'm using Biztalk Server 2002 ent
erprise.
The servers are using Windows 2003 Enterprise with all the latest updates.

When files are submitted to Biztalk they begin to process on both servers. S
hortly after one server will dominate and the other will stop processing eve
n though there are documents to process in the retry queue.

Does anyone have an idea why this happening?

Regards,

Russ

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Documents in the Retry queue may be waiting on the retry interval.  Do you
have any documents in the Work Queue waiting while one server is idle?

Sincerely,


Everett Yang
DSI - Microsoft BizTalk Server

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Hi Everett,

There weren't any documents in the work queue.

What troubled me is that as documents in retry queue were processed it seeme
d that only one server would process them.

Russ

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> Documents in the Retry queue may be waiting on the retry interval.  Do you
> have any documents in the Work Queue waiting while one server is idle?
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
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> DSI - Microsoft BizTalk Server
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Are both the BizTalk Servers in the same BizTalk Server Group? Or have
you just pointed them to the same databases? They should be in a
group.

Other than that, there are settings on each server to control how many
worker threads they should have. If one of your servers has 10 and the
other only 1, then that will be the problem, I think.

Jan Eliasen

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:13:02 -0700, "Russ"
<Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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>Hi Everett,
>
>There weren't any documents in the work queue.
>
>What troubled me is that as documents in retry queue were processed it seem
ed that only one server would process them.
>
>Russ
>
>"Everett Yang" wrote:
> 

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Servers in the group do not access the work queue in a perfect round robin
manner.  Both tries to access the work queue and will mark documents for
processing as fast as they can.  There may be some factors preventing
server #2 to get to the work queue as efficiently as server #1.  Maybe
networking or maybe server #2 is not processing documents as fast.  You can
stop work item processing for both servers.  Build up tons of documents in
work queue and then turn on work item processing on both servers.  See if
server#2 will participate when there are documents waiting in the work
queue.

Sincerely,


Everett Yang
DSI - Microsoft BizTalk Server

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