The LoadMetric.getBenchmark() method concerns me; seems like it will be hard to configure meaningfully. If you don't get it right, you can't properly apply the weights. Maybe my goal of having each node return a single load value when asked by the master was a mistake. If each node returned a Map<String, Double> where the values are the individually time-decayed metrics, the master could normalize each value relative to the same value from the other nodes, and then apply the weighting to the normalized values. On the DynamicLoadBalanceFactorProvider, can the periodic event coming from the JBoss Web listener drive the calculation? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171172#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...