Geoprocessing services and system load

Bob_Bistrais

We are considering adding geoprocessing services on our ArcGIS Server infrastructure, and wondering what others' experiences were.  Effect on performance is the biggest concern.  I realize there are lots of variables there, but a specific use case would be a service which buffers point data.  We currently have a single server site but expecting to bring a second server online soon.  Alternatively considering using ArcGIS Online geoprocessing services, although that consumes credits.  Wondering what others have done.  Is there a reliable way to estimate performance impact, given an anticipated use case?

ChadKopplin

We are currently using this in a number of our web app's, for what you are doing this may not be a major work load, and with adding another server to load balance the system this should help as well, because if one is being used for processing it will flip the load to the other server.  Do you have an ArcGIS server license?  If so you can create a map service of your geoprocessing service and serve it from your server, this will not consume any credits.