John, >From what I gather, this is the purpose of the properties "local_worker" and "local_worker_only" properties in the workers.properties file. They are documented at the bottom of this page: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/connectors-doc/config/workers.html
Unfortunately the explanation is not clear - partially due to the English. I say this somewhat apologetically - realizing of course that the writers command of English if probably far, far better than my command of their native language. >From what I do understand: 1) At the point that you decide to do maintenance on one machine, you need to change your workers.properties and set local_worker=0 for that particular machine. 2) Then do a "reload" on your Apache configuration. 3) JK will then stop directing new traffic to the designated machine. 4) After all sessions have expired or quiesced you can stop that Tomcat instance and do the maintenance. The above scenario may work for some, but not for my case. I have users that may work on a session for several hours sometimes. So I need to use JK and Tomcat session replication which is supposed to let you use the "ant stop" command and have all traffic immediately handled by the other Tomcat instances. There is a separate active thread on this issue. I see Filip just mentioned a new valve "JvmRouteBinderValve" that may help solve my problem. Hope this helps - Richard -----Original Message----- From: John Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:12 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: loadbalancing with mod_jk 1.2.8 I do know how to stop TC, I said the whole idea for people to know I was thinking about an HA set up using Apache + TC instances The part I am most interested in is,namely; how to make the connector at run time NOT send NEW connections to one the tomcat instances being used for loadbalancing ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Bleach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: Re: loadbalancing with mod_jk 1.2.8 > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:41:25PM -0500, John Smith wrote: > > Is there any way to make the connector at run time to NOT send NEW > > connections to one the tomcat instances being used for loadbalancing, and > > then reload this TC instances once all sessions to it have timed out? > > If you stop the tomcat instance with the command > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh stop > > I believe tomcat waits for threads to finish what they are doing > before it actually terminates. > > > G > -- > Privacy is a transient notion. It started when people stopped believing > that God could see everything and stopped when governments realised there > was a vacancy to be filled. > -- Roger Needham > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
