RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-15 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

I tried with all the configuration that you defined and am still able to
simulate the partial content when I make the code to sleep for a time
greater than the time defined in the reply timeout.

I understand that once the partail content is written into the client
pipe,it would not be feasible to get it back or ignore it.We are working
on finding the root cause of what is creating a delay in th app side of
more than 3 mins of reply timeout defined in prod.

But just looking at a general case,considering a long running
transaction/idle thread in the app for a 1 in 1M probability,if the case
is going to occur,there will be definitely be a partial content seen.And
we are afraid this would be aggravated when akamai comes into play.We
did speak to akamai on this regard and they have a opinion that there
would be a performance hit when any patching is going to be applied at
their end.

So,do you think of any fall back approach or a way to eliminate this
situation from apache/mod_jk perspective (although the current
configuration does not help) (or) do u think/aware of any cases/clients
who uses mod_jk/apache where the situation would have been handled
better (or) even if everyone who uses mod_jk/apache would be failing
with the same issue when such a situation (app code taking a longer time
and leading to partial content sent) would be faced by them?

Thanks again for you help.

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:29 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 14.09.2009 12:02, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 But I think you mentioned earlier that you were able to simulate the
 problem.

I didn't simulate, I understodd from reading the code. I also said, it
should go away when using recovery_options. So please:

- optimize your configuration
- see whether you still have problems and let us know if so

The configurations will not help with Akamai eventually caching
incomplete responses. If a backend doesn't send the full response, we
can't fix it with configuration.

Regards,

Rainer

 -Original Message-
 From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
 Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:11 PM
 To: Tomcat Users List
 Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

 On 14.09.2009 11:33, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Thanks Rainer.
 Just Curious,did these settings helped to overcome the multiple
 content problem in your local setup?

 I never had a multiple content problem - maybe due to good
 configuration.

 Also,thanks for your pointer on the thread id's for getting the
 correlations.

 Regards,

 Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-15 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

The other possible configuration that I think probably we might be
lacking/quite different is that we are loadbalancing the requests among
240 worker nodes each pointing to one app instance (all app instances
available in the default cluster) and we use Busyness algorithm(for load
balancer worker).

We have seen partial content from the middle of the pages as well which
was quite difficult to simulate in my local setup.

Do you think load balancing among 240 workers could be a possibiltiy of
messing up with request responses/adding up delay when there is a
failover/other load balancing situations? (Or) is there a defined limit
of worker nodes to be balanced that have been identified/defined?


Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Balakarthik Baskaran (WT01 - Retail, CPG, Transportation  Gover
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:20 PM
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

Hi Rainer,

I tried with all the configuration that you defined and am still able to
simulate the partial content when I make the code to sleep for a time
greater than the time defined in the reply timeout.

I understand that once the partail content is written into the client
pipe,it would not be feasible to get it back or ignore it.We are working
on finding the root cause of what is creating a delay in th app side of
more than 3 mins of reply timeout defined in prod.

But just looking at a general case,considering a long running
transaction/idle thread in the app for a 1 in 1M probability,if the case
is going to occur,there will be definitely be a partial content seen.And
we are afraid this would be aggravated when akamai comes into play.We
did speak to akamai on this regard and they have a opinion that there
would be a performance hit when any patching is going to be applied at
their end.

So,do you think of any fall back approach or a way to eliminate this
situation from apache/mod_jk perspective (although the current
configuration does not help) (or) do u think/aware of any cases/clients
who uses mod_jk/apache where the situation would have been handled
better (or) even if everyone who uses mod_jk/apache would be failing
with the same issue when such a situation (app code taking a longer time
and leading to partial content sent) would be faced by them?

Thanks again for you help.

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:29 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 14.09.2009 12:02, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 But I think you mentioned earlier that you were able to simulate the
 problem.

I didn't simulate, I understodd from reading the code. I also said, it
should go away when using recovery_options. So please:

- optimize your configuration
- see whether you still have problems and let us know if so

The configurations will not help with Akamai eventually caching
incomplete responses. If a backend doesn't send the full response, we
can't fix it with configuration.

Regards,

Rainer

 -Original Message-
 From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
 Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:11 PM
 To: Tomcat Users List
 Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

 On 14.09.2009 11:33, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Thanks Rainer.
 Just Curious,did these settings helped to overcome the multiple
 content problem in your local setup?

 I never had a multiple content problem - maybe due to good
 configuration.

 Also,thanks for your pointer on the thread id's for getting the
 correlations.

 Regards,

 Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

Pfa the config files in txt format.I tried with the combinatrions
available in the settings marked with comments.

Also,could you pl let me know the following:

- Will the access log contain an entry for each request that is seen in
the jk log?I can see a corresponding entry in the accesslog for an entry
in the jk log in my local setup.But I coulnt interpret the same from my
prod log.I hope getting this will provide some direction on what element
is creating the timeout as from the prod log I can see one entry haing
the a timeout in the same time perios as that of the other requests.Pl
let me know how to interpret the files.I have sent you the prod log file
in my prev mail.Pl let me know if you would like to resend the same or
any other details.I too the all entries around 13:44:08 from both logs
from prod.

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:43 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 10.09.2009 14:46, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Hi Rainer,

 I did tried with a lot of combinations for the settings and can see
 that when recovery_options is set,no multiple content is seen and
 partial content is seen followed by an OK message when a huge chunk
 of data is written. However,the failover case didn't at all work out
 when the recovery_options is set.Pfa a doc with the scenarios that I
 tested and the results that I am seeing.

 However,in our prod envt,we currently have the reply_timeout and the
 recovery_options setting available and we have reomoved the
 socket_timeout.The recent behaviour that we are observing is,unlike
 the duplicate content with the header that we saw earlier with
 socket_timeout,we are seeing some of the content in the middle of the
 response being duplicated.

 We are making use of dynamic includes of the jsp files (with ATG dsp
 tags) and when I tried having the same in my local setup,I could see
 the response being written into the socket once the jsp completes.But
 not able to replicate a scenario of recreating multiple content from
 the middle of the page/content served by a fragment that is included.

 Pfa a file with the behaviour that I am noticing from the access and
 jk log files.For the test app,I could see only one GET request and a
 corresponding response in the jk log with the response time.I included

 one image and I can see a corresponding entry for the image as well in

 both files.However,there are no entries seen for the included jsp
files.

 I am attaching the log entries from our prod envt as well which I took

 when I was able to see a timeout reply in the jk file.However,from the

 access log I couldn't interpret a corresponding entry/behaviour.Could
 you pl help on how the multiple content could have been occuring in
 the middle and your insights from the log files? (Also,pl note that we

 have currenlty turned off akamai in prod and the timeout is seen
 without akamai as well)

Let's start in the right way, first fix the configuration, then do and
analyze the tests, maybe resulting in more config optimization.

Please post your config. I had a quick look at the files you attached,
but it looks very much like we first need to improve the config, before
analyzing behaviour, that will likely not appear with the right config.

 Also,reg your explanation about akamai,I can contact akamai to find
 out if they can handle the prematurely closed data differently.Do you
 remember any setting to the browser to interpret this invalid data
 based on content length/premature closure?(just for testing though
 wouldn't apply to real life scenario)

No there is no such browser setting that I'm aware of. But akamai is not
a browser, its a server that behaves more like a cache. So they need to
solve a server problem, not an end user problem. They should immediately
invalidate content, that was delivered over a connection that had a
protocol abort.

 Thanks much for your help.I can give you a call if you would like to
 discuss this over phone.

Lets first check the config, maybe then everything will be fine ;)

Regards,

Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

Also find attached the jk log file of the reply timeout occurrence of
today in Prod envt.Please notice the thread 1258649952 which has
failed and there are also some successful responses seen in the
intermediate duration.I am not sure at this point if this belongs to the
same request or due to a parallel thread.At this point,I am not able to
enable the debug logs in prod as it might overflow the log bringing down
the web instance.

Regards,
Bala


-Original Message-
From: Balakarthik Baskaran (WT01 - Retail, CPG, Transportation  Gover
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 12:52 PM
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

Hi Rainer,

Pfa the config files in txt format.I tried with the combinatrions
available in the settings marked with comments.

Also,could you pl let me know the following:

- Will the access log contain an entry for each request that is seen in
the jk log?I can see a corresponding entry in the accesslog for an entry
in the jk log in my local setup.But I coulnt interpret the same from my
prod log.I hope getting this will provide some direction on what element
is creating the timeout as from the prod log I can see one entry haing
the a timeout in the same time perios as that of the other requests.Pl
let me know how to interpret the files.I have sent you the prod log file
in my prev mail.Pl let me know if you would like to resend the same or
any other details.I too the all entries around 13:44:08 from both logs
from prod.

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:43 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 10.09.2009 14:46, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Hi Rainer,

 I did tried with a lot of combinations for the settings and can see
 that when recovery_options is set,no multiple content is seen and
 partial content is seen followed by an OK message when a huge chunk
 of data is written. However,the failover case didn't at all work out
 when the recovery_options is set.Pfa a doc with the scenarios that I
 tested and the results that I am seeing.

 However,in our prod envt,we currently have the reply_timeout and the
 recovery_options setting available and we have reomoved the
 socket_timeout.The recent behaviour that we are observing is,unlike
 the duplicate content with the header that we saw earlier with
 socket_timeout,we are seeing some of the content in the middle of the
 response being duplicated.

 We are making use of dynamic includes of the jsp files (with ATG dsp
 tags) and when I tried having the same in my local setup,I could see
 the response being written into the socket once the jsp completes.But
 not able to replicate a scenario of recreating multiple content from
 the middle of the page/content served by a fragment that is included.

 Pfa a file with the behaviour that I am noticing from the access and
 jk log files.For the test app,I could see only one GET request and a
 corresponding response in the jk log with the response time.I included

 one image and I can see a corresponding entry for the image as well in

 both files.However,there are no entries seen for the included jsp
files.

 I am attaching the log entries from our prod envt as well which I took

 when I was able to see a timeout reply in the jk file.However,from the

 access log I couldn't interpret a corresponding entry/behaviour.Could
 you pl help on how the multiple content could have been occuring in
 the middle and your insights from the log files? (Also,pl note that we

 have currenlty turned off akamai in prod and the timeout is seen
 without akamai as well)

Let's start in the right way, first fix the configuration, then do and
analyze the tests, maybe resulting in more config optimization.

Please post your config. I had a quick look at the files you attached,
but it looks very much like we first need to improve the config, before
analyzing behaviour, that will likely not appear with the right config.

 Also,reg your explanation about akamai,I can contact akamai to find
 out if they can handle the prematurely closed data differently.Do you
 remember any setting to the browser to interpret this invalid data
 based on content length/premature closure?(just for testing though
 wouldn't apply to real life scenario)

No there is no such browser setting that I'm aware of. But akamai is not
a browser, its a server that behaves more like a cache. So they need to
solve a server problem, not an end user problem. They should immediately
invalidate content, that was delivered over a connection that had a
protocol abort.

 Thanks much for your help.I can give you a call if you would like to
 discuss this over phone.

Lets first check the config, maybe then everything will be fine ;)

Regards,

Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Yes Andre,you are right.We do have akamai in between the client and 
webserver.But we afraid that there could be a performance hit when we start 
patching in there.We are looking for a much intuitive solution of solving this 
at origin or how to handle the situation better.But,do you think all the 
clients who uses the apapche_mod_jk setup would suffer from this problem or 
what would be an optimum solution that would work fine or a configuration that 
would have been working fine for others that you might be aware of?

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:02 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Yes you are right.I think I didn't mention it clearly.I am having this while 
 loop for writing a huge chunk of data followed by a thread that sleeps for 
 some time and that is where I am expecting my reply_timeout to be timed out 
 and the data written till the sleep of the thread is seen in the browser and 
 the log file.

Ok, now I do understand better, I think.
There is a request.
The Tomcat app starts answering (a long chunk of data), then crashes.
This is simulated by your test script, which sends a long chunk of data, then 
sleeps (to simulate a crash).
Eventually, some timeout occurs, which (may) cause another element to consider 
this Tomcat unresponsive, and switch the request to another one.
This other one then restarts the request from the beginning.
The final result being that the requesting browser first received an incomplete 
chunk of data from the first webapp, and now starts receiving the same data 
(again) from another webapp.

Again intuitively, I don't know how any server-side scheme is going to solve 
that.
When the first webapp starts answering, that Tomcat has to start sending the 
answer back to the client.  If it then crashes, it is too late to call it 
back; the data is already on the wire to the client.
It would be in my view the client's responsibility to ensure that it discards 
any incomplete data received.
But I don't know of any browser for instance, which does that.
They all start to try to display the data as soon as they have the beginning of 
it.

I think that if you really need this, then you would have to insert some other 
item between Tomcat and the client, which acts as a proxy, and only starts 
sending the response to the client when it is sure that it has received and 
buffered a complete response from the server.
But then, this item becomes the weak link.  It could also crash..
Or else you need an applet at the client side, which does the same thing.


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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Thanks Rainer.
Just Curious,did these settings helped to overcome the multiple content
problem in your local setup?

Also,thanks for your pointer on the thread id's for getting the
correlations.


Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:50 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 14.09.2009 09:22, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 - Will the access log contain an entry for each request that is seen
 in the jk log?I can see a corresponding entry in the accesslog for an
 entry in the jk log in my local setup.But I coulnt interpret the same
 from my prod log.I hope getting this will provide some direction on
 what element is creating the timeout as from the prod log I can see
 one entry haing the a timeout in the same time perios as that of the
 other requests.Pl let me know how to interpret the files.I have sent
 you the prod log file in my prev mail.Pl let me know if you would like

 to resend the same or any other details.I too the all entries around
 13:44:08 from both logs from prod.

Yes, all requests handled by mod_jk will be logged as usual in the
Apache access log (after finishing the request). If mod_jk needs to do
retries or a failover, you still get only one entry in the access log.
The duration logged is the full duration from beginning working on the
request until logging.

You should add a couple of interesting data to your httpd LogFormat:

%d: duration in microsenconds

%P %{tid}P: process and thread id. Those get logged in the mod_jk log
file to, so your can do correlations between access log and mod_jk log.

Maybe the Session Cookie (incoming and outgoing):

%{JSESSIONID}C %{Set-Cookie}o

and a couple of JK notes (details on
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/apache.html):

%{JK_LB_FIRST_NAME}n
%{JK_LB_FIRST_STATE}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_NAME}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_ACCESSED}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_ERRORS}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_BUSY}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_ACTIVATION}n
%{JK_LB_LAST_STATE}n


 # Define list of workers that will be used # for mapping requests #
 The configuration directives are valid # for the mod_jk version 1.2.18

 and later # worker.list=loadbalancer,status


 # Define Node1
 # modify the host as your host IP or DNS name.
 worker.node1.port=8109
 worker.node1.host=localhost
 worker.node1.type=ajp13
 worker.node1.lbfactor=1
 #worker.node1.prepost_timeout=1 #Not required if using ping_mode=A

 #worker.node1.connect_timeout=8 #Not required if using ping_mode=A

 worker.node1.ping_mode=A #As of mod_jk 1.2.27
 #worker.node1.activation=a
 #worker.node1.connection_pool_size=55

Let mod_jk decide on the connection_pool_size (when using Apache), do
not activate this line.

 worker.node1.socket_keepalive=True
 worker.node1.socket_timeout=5

I would not use a socket_timeout (personal preference).

 #worker.node1.connection_pool_timeout=30
 #worker.node1.recovery_options=7
 #worker.node1.ping_timeout=8
 #worker.node1.prepost_timeout=8
 #worker.node1.max_packet_size=65536
 #worker.node1.reply_timeout=5000
 worker.node1.retries=2

I would add the following (also to node2):

worker.node1.recovery_options=7
worker.node1.ping_timeout=1
worker.node1.socket_connect_timeout=2000
worker.node1.connection_pool_minsize=0
worker.node1.connection_pool_timeout=600

# CAUTION: you need to set connectionTimeout in your Tomcat # or JBoss
connector to the same value # as connection_pool_timeout. But for mod_jk
it is in # seconds, for Tomcat or JBoss in milliseconds.
# So add connectionTimeout=60 to your AJP connectors.

Personally I would also add a reply timeout, but that depends on the
application:

worker.node1.reply_timeout=30

and then in order to not make nodes fail because of few reply timeouts:

worker.loadbalancer.max_reply_timeouts=20

Finally I would add the following to the balancer, which was introduced
in 1.2.28:

worker.loadbalancer.error_escalation_time=0

 # Define Node2
 # modify the host as your host IP or DNS name.
 worker.node2.port=8209
 worker.node2.host= localhost
 worker.node2.type=ajp13
 worker.node2.lbfactor=1
 #worker.node2.prepost_timeout=1 #Not required if using ping_mode=A

 #worker.node2.connect_timeout=8 #Not required if using ping_mode=A

 worker.node2.ping_mode=A #As of mod_jk 1.2.27
 #worker.node2.activation=a
 #worker.node2.connection_pool_size=55
 worker.node2.socket_keepalive=True
 worker.node2.socket_timeout=5
 #worker.node2.connection_pool_timeout=30
 #worker.node2.recovery_options=7
 #worker.node2.ping_timeout=8
 #worker.node2.prepost_timeout=8
 #worker.node2.max_packet_size=65536
 #worker.node2.reply_timeout=5000
 worker.node2.retries=2



 # Load-balancing behaviour
 worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
 worker.loadbalancer.method=B
 worker.loadbalancer.balance_workers=node1,node2

 # Status worker for managing load balancer worker.status.type=status



 #worker.node1.fail_on_status=304
 

RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
But I think you mentioned earlier that you were able to simulate the
problem.

Regards,
Bala

-Original Message-
From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:11 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 14.09.2009 11:33, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Thanks Rainer.
 Just Curious,did these settings helped to overcome the multiple
 content problem in your local setup?

I never had a multiple content problem - maybe due to good
configuration.

 Also,thanks for your pointer on the thread id's for getting the
 correlations.

Regards,

Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-14 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

I did change the process id configuration,and the following is observed:

Access Log:
===
3052 1536 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Sep/2009:17:57:04 +0530] GET /test/test.jsp
HTTP/1.1 200 61584
3052 1524 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Sep/2009:17:57:05 +0530] GET
/test/images/logo.gif HTTP/1.1 304 -


But from the modjk log,I can see the following and no relevant pid or
thread id is seen:

[Mon Sep 14 17:57:05 2009]loadbalancer localhost 0.687500 GET  200
[Mon Sep 14 17:57:05 2009]loadbalancer localhost 0.015625 GET  304

Can you pl let me know what configuration will make the pid to appear in
both logs to find out the correlation

Regards,
Bala

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From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 14.09.2009 12:02, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 But I think you mentioned earlier that you were able to simulate the
 problem.

I didn't simulate, I understodd from reading the code. I also said, it
should go away when using recovery_options. So please:

- optimize your configuration
- see whether you still have problems and let us know if so

The configurations will not help with Akamai eventually caching
incomplete responses. If a backend doesn't send the full response, we
can't fix it with configuration.

Regards,

Rainer

 -Original Message-
 From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
 Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:11 PM
 To: Tomcat Users List
 Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

 On 14.09.2009 11:33, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Thanks Rainer.
 Just Curious,did these settings helped to overcome the multiple
 content problem in your local setup?

 I never had a multiple content problem - maybe due to good
 configuration.

 Also,thanks for your pointer on the thread id's for getting the
 correlations.

 Regards,

 Rainer

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-10 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
No I explicitly made it to loop so that I can write a content for a time longer 
than the reply_timout setting to simulate and look at the behaviour.

Regards,
Bala

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From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
...
Just jumping in here, but doesn't that request to /test/test.jsp appear to be 
looping ? or is that by design ?

ReplyTimeout_Analysis.txt :

[Thu Sep 10 14:46:47 2009][5024:2952] [debug] jk_ajp_common.c (1259):
00f06D 20 74 65 73 74 69 6E 63 6C 75 64 65 31 20 50  - m.testinclude1.P
[Thu Sep 10 14:46:47 2009][5024:2952] [debug] jk_ajp_common.c (1259):
010061 67 65 0D 0A 48 65 6C 6C 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 20 66  - age..Hello.f
[Thu Sep 10 14:46:47 2009][5024:2952] [debug] jk_ajp_common.c (1259):
011072 6F 6D 20 74 65 73 74 69 6E 63 6C 75 64 65 31  - rom.testinclude1


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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-10 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Yes you are right.I think I didn't mention it clearly.I am having this while 
loop for writing a huge chunk of data followed by a thread that sleeps for some 
time and that is where I am expecting my reply_timeout to be timed out and the 
data written till the sleep of the thread is seen in the browser and the log 
file.

Regards,
Bala

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Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 No I explicitly made it to loop so that I can write a content for a time 
 longer than the reply_timout setting to simulate and look at the behaviour.

Ok, but does a reply timeout really apply in that case ?
I would intuitively think that a reply timeout would be irrelevant as soon as 
the first byte of the reply arrives.  How long the response is after that, 
should not matter.
No ?

As I mentioned, I was just jumping in in the middle. Disregard my comments if 
they are not relevant.  I was just looking at the logs and trying to figure out 
what the problem is.

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RE: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-09 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi Rainer,

I did try with the recovery_option as 7 and I was able to see a partial
content being sent even in that case.Also,this configuration is what we
tried in prod as well(we removed socket_timeout,had reply_timeout to 3
mins and recovery_options to 7).But still multiple content was
seen.So,hope this partial content was the one that was served to akamai
and guess its messed up there.

Also,when this option is set,the session failover behaviour gets
completely ruled out as we make the worker not to retry and this will
not try to contact the other worker and thereby the other app instance.

Pfa the configuration files that I used in my local setup.

Regards,
Bala

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From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:39 PM
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

On 09.09.2009 16:11, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Thanks for your reply.I am able to simulate the problem with 1.2.28 as

 well.This is the mod_jk version that I used in my local setup.Our prod

 version has 1.2.27.So regardless of the version,the issue is seen.

OK

 Pfa the detailed debug logs of mod_jk for different combinations that
 I tried out and when the issue occured.

Thanks.

The reason is in your configuration. There is one switch that is much
recommended and form the logs it seems you already found and tried it:
the recovery_options.

See:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/workers.html

and also look carefully at:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/timeouts.html

You should set recovery_options to 7. This switch is exactly for
disabling request retries in case Tomcat already replied, or at least
the request was send to Tomcat. It should fix your problem.

So maybe we are back to the beginning: why don't you post your config,
so we can see, if there is more potential for optimization.

From the timestamps in the jk log I can see e.g., that you are using a
hard configured time stamp format. That's not to good, because that way
you don't see the milliseconds, that are logged since a couple of
versions by default.

 The other main scenario apart from the one explained below that I am
 seeing is when I tried setting up a JBOSS cluster node setup of two
 nodes with session replication (with socket_timeout not set or default

 to infinite).Node 1 app code is made to take a longer time to
 respond.When the node1 has started writing a huge chunk,I abruptly
 kill the node 1 and I see mod_jk failing over the request to node2.But

 the end result is the data written by node1 until it has been killed
 clubbed with the data written by node2 is seen in the browser.

Will also be fixed by recovery_options.

 This is where we are not able to make a decision of even having
 socket_timeout to be infinite or to a defined limit(as we never know
 how long/when the root cause of the delay might occur) as there may be

 lot of possibility of failover and we suscpect the multiple content
 issue would be coming up when failover happens.The worst part is when
 akamai comes into picture where I hope this partial content is cached
 in their edge servers and completely messes up by showing the content
 to the users.So for all other subsequent requests,the data which is
 served from akamai cache is the messedup multiple content thereby
 completely degrading the customer experience.

See above. I generally am not in favor of the socket_timeout. Even after
your original problem goes away by using recovery_options, the behaviour
of the general socket_timeout is not very nice. I would stick with a
couple of the other timeouts.

Regards,

Rainer

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 From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:16 PM
 To: Tomcat Users List
 Subject: Re: Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

 Hi,

 On 09.09.2009 06:56, balakarthik.baska...@wipro.com wrote:
 Hi,
 In our production envt,we are making use of a configuration of
 Apache(2.2.10-1)+Mod_jk(1.2.27)+JBOSS(4.0.5)+ATG 2007.1.

 We are facing a problem where multiple content is being displayed to
 the customer.It was observed that the pages were being periodically
 rendered or rendered multiple times.The page was rendered with a
 standard navigational header showing two times. Depending on the
 browser, the duplicate headers was stacked vertically or
horizontally.

 The issue was further exasperated because a particular fragment was
 cached at Akamai, and once this double header was served up by
 origin,

 it was then cached at Akamai and included in customer pages at a very
 high rate.

 Our Analysis So far

 We did a local setup of the above configuration and we are able to
 recreate the multiple content problem.The setup involves apache
 configured with mod_jk having two worker nodes balanced by a load
 balancer worker.The problem occurs when the app code takes a longer
 time than the 

Need Help - Mod_jk/Apache - Mutiple Content issue

2009-09-08 Thread balakarthik.baskaran
Hi,
In our production envt,we are making use of a configuration of
Apache(2.2.10-1)+Mod_jk(1.2.27)+JBOSS(4.0.5)+ATG 2007.1.

We are facing a problem where multiple content is being displayed to the
customer.It was observed that the pages were being periodically rendered
or rendered multiple times.The page was rendered with a standard
navigational header showing two times. Depending on the browser, the
duplicate headers was stacked vertically or horizontally. The issue was
further exasperated because a particular fragment was cached at Akamai,
and once this double header was served up by origin, it was then cached
at Akamai and included in customer pages at a very high rate.

Our Analysis So far

We did a local setup of the above configuration and we are able to
recreate the multiple content problem.The setup involves apache
configured with mod_jk having two worker nodes balanced by a load
balancer worker.The problem occurs when the app code takes a longer time
than the time defined in the socket_timeout parameter of the worker
nodes. We have set the socket_timeout config of the worker nodes to be 2
secs for both nodes and the appserver jsp logic is made to sleep for
3secs.

The behaviour observed is as follows:

The first worker node fails after the socket timeout time and the second
worker node is able to retreive the response from the app server.However
while turning on the debug of mod_jk,we are observing that a partial
content has been served by the AJP Connector/Container from the App
server for the node 1.Also,a full content has been served for the
request initiated by node2.The full content follows the partial content
that has been already sent to the client .Hence the browser has a
duplicate/multiple content shown to the customers.

What are we looking for?

The open question at this point that we have is how/what configuration
could either limit this partial response (or) send an error response to
the client when the worker node is found to be inactive? (or) handling
the situation of the app server taking a longer time to respond than the
defined timeouts (in mod_jk) and a partial content being writtent into
the socket,received by mod_jk and sent to the client?

 The problem gets aggravated when we akamai comes into picture.


Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Bala Karthik

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