The manager uses ratios to determine the importance of status information coming from advisors and Load Balancer. You can change the default ratios that the manager uses to weight this information.
Along with the current weight for each server and some other information required for its calculations, the manager gets the first two values (active and new connections) from the executor. These values are based on information that is generated and stored internally in the executor.
The number of active connections is dependent upon the number of clients as well as the length of time necessary to use the services that are being provided by the load balanced server machines. If the client connections are quick (such as small Web pages served using HTTP GET), then the number of active connections are fairly low. If the client connections are slower (such as a database query), then the number of active connections are higher.
You should avoid setting active and new connections proportions values too low. You will disable load balancing and smoothing unless you have these first two values set to at least 20 each.
dscontrol cluster set cluster proportions valueSee the topic on the dscontrol cluster command for more information.