Intelligent work load manager

• US 8,898,301 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2013
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 6, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Business Services, LLC (Conduent, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shikari, Faiyaz, Matta, Madhav
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tammy
• Application Number:
  US14/085,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129704A1
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/203, 709/230, 713/150
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/548 Queue
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30

Abstract

An apparatus comprising a processor configured to monitor at a recurring interval a plurality of message queues and a plurality of server sessions that access the message queues, determine, at each occurrence of the interval, an appropriate number of server sessions per queue that achieves acceptable load balance, and redistribute the server sessions among the message queues to match the appropriate number of server session per queue upon determining the appropriate number of server sessions and prior to a subsequent occurrence of the interval.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising a processor configured to:

monitor at a recurring interval a plurality of message queues and a plurality of server sessions that access the message queues;

determine, at each occurrence of the interval, an appropriate number of server sessions per queue that achieves acceptable load balance; and

redistribute the server sessions among the message queues to match the appropriate number of server session per queue upon determining the appropriate number of server sessions and prior to a subsequent occurrence of the interval.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to maintain the server sessions for the message queues if the message queues each have a depth beyond a threshold depth value for determining whether a message queue is relatively lightly loaded.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to leave a minimum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to move a maximum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the servers'"'"' sessions are activation specification sessions implemented using an International Business Machines (IBM) Websphere application program.

6. A method for intelligently managing a work load comprising:

monitoring at a recurring interval a plurality of message queues and a plurality of server sessions that access the message queues;

determining, at each occurrence of the interval, an appropriate number of server sessions per queue that achieves acceptable load balance; and

redistributing the server sessions among the message queues to match the appropriate number of server session per queue upon determining the appropriate number of server sessions and prior to a subsequent occurrence of the interval.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising maintaining the server sessions for the message queues if the message queues each have a depth beyond a threshold depth value for determining whether a message queue is relatively lightly loaded.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising leaving a minimum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising moving a maximum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the servers'"'"' sessions are activation specification sessions implemented using an International Business Machines (IBM) Websphere application program.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer usable instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to:

monitor at a recurring interval a plurality of message queues and a plurality of server sessions that access the message queues;

determine, at each occurrence of the interval, an appropriate number of server sessions per queue that achieves acceptable load balance; and

redistribute the server sessions among the message queues to match the appropriate number of server session per queue upon determining the appropriate number of server sessions and prior to a subsequent occurrence of the interval.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to maintain the server sessions for the message queues if the message queues each have a depth beyond a threshold depth value for determining whether a message queue is relatively lightly loaded.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to leave a minimum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to move a maximum number of sessions per queue upon redistributing the server sessions among the message queues.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the servers'"'"' sessions are activation specification sessions implemented using an International Business Machines (IBM) Websphere application program.