load balancing and inactive workers

2002-04-02 Thread Matthew Tepel
We are working on transitioning from Jserv to Tomcat 4.0 (believe it or not), and there is one problem I haven't found the answer to in the documentation. We use apache with a pool of remote java servers. There is a tool (and web interface) that allows us to tell mod_jserv not to send new

Re: load balancing and inactive workers

2002-04-02 Thread costinm
There is no such tool for mod_jk yet. Next version ( Jk2 ) will have such a thing - but it's not even alpha, it'll take few more months to complete it. Costin On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matthew Tepel wrote: We are working on transitioning from Jserv to Tomcat 4.0 (believe it or not), and there

Re: load balancing and inactive workers

2002-04-02 Thread Matthew Tepel
This is a feature that we really need. I would consider writing it myself if I knew more about how mod_jk works, what previous discussion has gone on in this area, how much work it involves, etc. Any suggestions? On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such tool for mod_jk

Re: load balancing and inactive workers

2002-04-02 Thread costinm
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matthew Tepel wrote: This is a feature that we really need. I would consider writing it myself if I knew more about how mod_jk works, what previous discussion has gone on in this area, how much work it involves, etc. Any suggestions? Any help is great. You can start by

Re: load balancing and inactive workers

2002-04-02 Thread Bernd Koecke
I sent a mail with a similar content to the list and discussed it on the dev list. The solution is to divide routing from load balancing. The following functionality would be easy: a) sends requests with a session cookie for an inactive worker to that worker but b) sends requests with no