Or better, use the disable-on-404 a few seconds before the garbage collector restart occurs...
Baptiste On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ben Timby <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not familiar with Java application servers, so please excuse my > ignorance. > > Is it possible to schedule the garbage collection? If so, you could > temporarily disable the server, kick off GC, then re-enable the > server. HAProxy has a stats socket that would allow you to adjust the > server's weight to 0 temporarily. If you could make a JSP to kick off > GC, then you could have a simple cron job that uses socat to disable > the server, curl to hit that page, then socat to re-enable the server. > Do each server in turn (or on separate intervals). If you can do this > more often than it would happen "naturally" then you can control the > process and lose 0 requests. >

