Hello, We have a Tomcat 5.5.25 server connected to Apache 2.2.9 over mod_ajp_proxy. Monitoring of the servers shows that AJP proxy connections are not reused but closed and reopened. Frequent closing of TCP connections leaves many connections in TIME_WAIT state and this is something we would prefer to avoid if possible.
While reviewing of Apache, Tomcat and mod_proxy settings I found that the response from Tomcat contains a flag that indicates if the TCP connection should be reused after the end of a request-handling cycle. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html#resppacketstruct (See Response packet structure) My understanding of the *reuse* flag in AJP13_END_RESPONSE structure is that this flag is hard coded and cannot be controlled by configuration settings. I couldn't find any in Tomcat AJP connector configuration that could do that. Since Tomcat is sending the response, is there any way to control the reuse of AJP TCP connection through Tomcat configuration? I hope I don't have to resort to editing and recompilation of the mod_ajp_proxy module :-) Thanks, Dimitar
