On 11.06.2013 00:58, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> Any plans when 1.2.38 will be released?

Not really, but it is overdue. So IMO we should release it during the
next few weeks.

Regards,

Rainer

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de>wrote:
> 
>> On 10.06.2013 17:29, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>>> 2013/6/10 David Gubler <d...@doodle.com>:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> We have recently upgraded our Apache servers from Debian Squeeze to
>> Wheezy
>>>> (from Apache 2.2.16 with mod_jk 1.2.30 to Apache 2.2.22 with mod_jk
>> 1.2.37).
>>>> The Tomcat version hasn't changed (7.0.37).
>>>>
>>>> We often do rolling releases by disabling (DIS) some worker in
>> jkmanager,
>>>> waiting for a few minutes for most sessions to go away (we use sticky
>>>> sessions but not forced), upgrading it, and re-enabling it. This worked
>>>> perfectly with mod_jk 1.2.30. The server is rather busy (order of
>> 100-200
>>>> req/s going to tomcat).
>>>>
>>>> However, with mod_jk 1.2.37, the activation state behaves erratically.
>> Say I
>>>> disable worker1 on all apache servers via jkmanager. When I go back to
>> the
>>>> jkmanager overview screen, it still shows as active. I hit reload, now
>> it
>>>> shows as disabled. I can wait for a few seconds or minutes, reload, and
>>>> suddenly it shows up as active again! It keeps switching back and forth
>>>> between active and disabled if I reload often enough. Afterwards I
>> usually
>>>> have to set it to active a few times to make it stick there. This
>> happens on
>>>> all apache servers independently.
>>>>
>>>> And more worringly, the load on the worker does not decrease, not even
>> after
>>>> waiting for half an hour or longer (with 1.2.30, the load on a worker
>>>> decreased to about 5% after 5-10 minutes).
>>>>
>>>> When I set a worker to stopped, the activation state also switches
>> between
>>>> active and stopped, the load on the worker goes down slowly, but the
>>>> requests do not cease completely. With 1.2.30, I could set a worker to
>>>> stopped and it instantaneously received no more requests.
>>>>
>>>> Other than that, mod_jk behaves as expected (e.g. if I shut down one of
>> the
>>>> tomcats, the requests go to the other; load balancing works fine in
>> normal
>>>> operation).
>>>>
>>>> I have stripped down our workers.properties to the bare minimum that we
>>>> need, and the problem is still there:
>>>>
>>>> ps=/
>>>> worker.list=loadbalancer,jkstatus
>>>> worker.jkstatus.type=status
>>>>
>>>> worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
>>>> worker.loadbalancer.sticky_session=true
>>>> worker.loadbalancer.balance_workers=worker1,worker2
>>>>
>>>> worker.worker1.type=ajp13
>>>> worker.worker1.host=WW.XX.YY.ZZ
>>>> worker.worker1.port=8009
>>>> worker.worker1.connect_timeout=70000
>>>> worker.worker1.prepost_timeout=70000
>>>> worker.worker1.socket_timeout=70
>>>> worker.worker1.connection_pool_timeout=70
>>>> worker.worker1.connection_pool_size=200
>>>> worker.worker1.retry_interval=1000
>>>> worker.worker1.lbfactor=1
>>>>
>>>> [same for worker2, only difference is the IP address]
>>>>
>>>> Rest of the configuration is Debian standard. Apache uses JkAutoAlias,
>>>> JkMount and a bunch of JkUnMounts, but nothing fancy.
>>>>
>>>> The changelog does not really give me any clues as to what change could
>>>> cause this, and neither does the workers.properties documentation :(
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an idea what I could be doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looking at the current changelog,
>>> <section name="Changes between 1.2.37 and 1.2.38">
>>> ...
>>>      <fix>
>>>         Fix status worker not updating parameters for all members.
>> (mturk)
>>>       </fix>
>>>
>>> That is
>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1354021
>>
>> Yes that should be it.
>>
>> If the OP compiles himself, just add the tiny patch
>>
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/jk/trunk/native/common/jk_status.c?r1=1354021&r2=1354020&pathrev=1354021
>>
>> to your mod_jk source before compiling.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rainer

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