On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Jeff Poling <jpol...@moody.edu> wrote: > Thanks. For whatever reason, an apachectl stop and an apachectl start > corrected the issue- the balancer-manager now reflects the config in the > config file >
mod_proxy_balancer is dangerous to use when doing graceful restarts. The state of the balancers is saved, and then re-applied, however various things can cause the settings to be applied to a different balancer member. This is a long standing bug, and hence (I presume) quite hard to fix. These bug reports describe it https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44736 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45950 The only solutions are: 1) Don't use mod_proxy_balancer. Proxy to a local instance of ha-proxy or varnish running on localhost, and use that to manage your backends or 2) Don't use graceful restarts. Both suck. You'll see the bug dates back over 3 years, and there is no intention to fix it as far as I know. At $JOB, we're stopping using mod_proxy_balancer now, we're slowly migrating each balancer to ha-proxy. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
