In the System folder in ArcGIS Server Manager there are the Publishing Tools - a geoprocessing service that is required to publish map services. Here are the deails of our Publishing Tools running on our 3 server site:
The PublishingTools service is used by ArcGIS Server to publish service definition files as services.
Instance Type: | Dedicated |
Status: | Started |
Instances Running: | 3 |
Instances in Use: | 0 |
Maximum Instances: | 6 |
The service parameters are set to minimum instances = 1 and maximum instances = 2. Therefore, across all three servers we get "Instances Running: 3" and "Maximum Instances: 6". That seems excessive to me. Publishing map services is a very occassional task and there is always only one person publishing services.
Could the instances be set to min=0 and max=1 to reduce server load? or would min=1 and max=1 be better? Othern than having to wait for the Publishing Tools geoprocessing service to spin up are there other drawbacks to setting min instances=0?
Thanks,
Bernie.