"scotthamilton77" <scott.hamil...@plateau.com> wrote in message 
news:26981946.p...@talk.nabble.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Tomcat 6.0.20 fronted by Apache 2.2.10 with mod_proxy_ajp.  I'm
> trying to figure out some tuning/tweaks to our AJP connector, and have run
> into some oddities I am not sure about and want to see if someone can shed
> some light on this.
>
> The primary problem I'm trying to solve here is the effect of
> keepAliveTimeout at the connector level.  I'm reading
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/ajp.html and it tells me 
> that
> this is "the number of milliseconds this Connector will wait for another 
> AJP
> request before closing the connection. The default value is to use the 
> value
> that has been set for the connectionTimeout attribute."
>
> Here's the kicker - I can't see where this ends up getting used - the
> behavior of the connector threads (watching them thru jconsole for 
> instance)
> doesn't seem to change no matter what I configure this to.  Furthermore,
> tracing thru the code, it looks like this setting is not even used (tho I
> could be missing something here).  The Connector class tries to do a
> setProperty for keepAliveTimeout on the JkCoyoteHandler class instance,
> which doesn't have a setter for this, so it goes into a properties map
> which, if I am following the code right, never gets used (meaning this
> particular keepAliveTimeout setting never gets pulled out).
>

Yes, the keepAliveTimeout is ignored by the JkCoyoteHandler AJP connector. 
Only the connectionTimeout is used.  The documentation should be cleaned up, 
since it is currently a mix of options that are supported by the different 
AJP connectors but not necessarily by others.

> I tried using tcnative under Windows to see if that made any difference, 
> and
> indeed it does - setting a value for keepAliveTimeout DOES get set but 
> then
> once that timeout occurs, my CPU utilization goes to 100% and my system
> crawls to a halt until I kill the tomcat java process.
>
> So... can someone explain whether the connectionTimeout and 
> keepAliveTimeout
> really do anything (useful) for AJP?  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Scott
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