You can improve the performance of the business integration system by
distributing the connector agents. The reasons connector agent
distribution improves performance include the following:
- Each InterChange Server and connector agent process runs in its own Java
Virtual Machine (JVM). A computer can only have so many JVM instances
running on it before performance begins to degrade. The threshold is
dependent upon the computer specifications, but distributing a connector agent
decreases the load on the machine hosting InterChange Server by one
JVM.
- The performance of an individual connector generally improves the closer
it is to the application with which it communicates, with respect to the
network topology. Ideally the connector agent should be installed on
the same computer that hosts the application server itself, though this might
not be possible depending on the environment. If the application host
computer and InterChange Server host computer are on different subnets,
however, the connector agent will typically still perform better if installed
on another computer in the same subnet as the one in which the application
host computer exists.
For information on how to distribute connector agents, see the Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Integration Adapters.
