Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Availability

Availability settings, such as pooling and timeouts, are set at the service level in the Service Editor during publishing, but can also be changed any time after a service has been published. With pooling, multiple connections can feed on a single pool of instances. A connection uses the instance for a period of time, gets a result, and then the instance is free to execute another request from any user. Depending on the request, execution can take milliseconds (a map pan or zoom) to minutes (a network trace or geoprocessing task). With pooling, you set a minimum number of instances that should start when the service itself starts. Likewise, you can set the maximum number of instances that can be available with pooling settings; ...