Author: rjung Date: Sun Sep 30 16:11:59 2007 New Revision: 580808 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=580808&view=rev Log: Small additions to JkShmFile documentation. Contributed by Gerhardus Geldenhuis.
Modified: tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/reference/apache.xml Modified: tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?rev=580808&r1=580807&r2=580808&view=diff ============================================================================== --- tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml (original) +++ tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml Sun Sep 30 16:11:59 2007 @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ <br /> <subsection name="Native"> <changelog> + <update> + Documentation: Small additions to JkShmFile documentation. + Contributed by Gerhardus Geldenhuis. (rjung) + </update> <fix> AJP13: Ignore flush packets before we received the response headers. (rjung) </fix> Modified: tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/reference/apache.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/reference/apache.xml?rev=580808&r1=580807&r2=580808&view=diff ============================================================================== --- tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/reference/apache.xml (original) +++ tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/reference/apache.xml Sun Sep 30 16:11:59 2007 @@ -80,12 +80,26 @@ </p></attribute> <attribute name="JkShmFile" required="false"><p> Shared memory file name. Used only on unix platforms. +The shm file is used by balancer and status workers. <br/> This directive is only allowed once. It must be put into the global part of the configuration. <br/> The default value is logs/jk-runtime-status. -</p></attribute> +It is highly recommended that the shm file be placed on a local +drive and not an NFS share. +</p> +<p> +The shared memory contains configuration and runtime information for load balancer +workers and their members. It is need in order that all apache children +<ul> +<li>share the same status information for load balancing members (OK, ERROR, ...),</li> +<li>share the information about load taken by the individual workers,</li> +<li>share the information for the parts of the configuration, which are changeable +during runtime by status workers.</li> +</ul> +</p> +</attribute> <attribute name="JkShmSize" required="false"><p> Size of the shared memory file name. <br/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]