Hi Rainer, Thank you for your reply - it really has helped out today in several ways.
>> I've got myself in a situation where I need a stopgap quick fix - until we >> can respond correctly. It turns out I was overreacting and we have other better tools to fix the troubles - no need to discuss as they are application specific. >> I have the following workers file: >> >> # define the worker list >> worker.list=LoadBalancer >> >> # Define the LB worker >> worker.LoadBalancer.type=lb >> worker.LoadBalancer.balance_workers=webprod1,webprod2 >> worker.LoadBalancer.sticky_session=1 >> >> # configure each worker >> worker.webprod1.type=ajp13 >> worker.webprod1.host=webprod1 >> worker.webprod1.port=8009 >> worker.webprod1.lbfactor=100 >> >> worker.webprod2.type=ajp13 >> worker.webprod2.host=webprod2 >> worker.webprod2.port=8009 >> worker.webprod2.lbfactor=100 >> >> If I change the last line to "worker.webprod2.lbfactor=0" will webprod2 only >> be used if webprod1 is disconnected or otherwise in an error state? > > No, value "0" ist not supported and will automatically be changed to "1". > > What about using activation=disabled? This worked really well today when one of our new Sun 2270s ran into an OS bug and slowly locked up. I just made the bad machine deactivated while we got support and applied the workaround. > What are you trying to achieve? I was thinking of "de-load-balancing" glad to re-think and abandon a silly notion. > > You should also look at the example configuration bundled with the 1.2.30 > sources. It contains nice suggestions about timeouts that your configuration > is lacking. This was extremely helpful - we now plan is to build 1.2.30 from source and begin using it very soon - we will likely use this well-annotated example for the basis of our configuration. I knew I could count on the Tomcat Community. BR, Dave >> My other choice is to turn off one of the server's Tomcat instance. >> >> The real solution might take a day or two and that is to put back JSESSIONID >> - meanwhile I'm looking at how to fix occasional strangeness for users. If >> someone has a way to force JSESSIONID with a valve or filter that would be >> great. >> >> Yes my jvmroutes are set. > > Regards, > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org