Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Nuno Fernandes
gt; Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > >From: Onur Agin [mailto:onura...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM > > To: users@httpd.apache.or

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Onur Ağın
mer attached to this message may be ignored. > > >From: Onur Agin [mailto:onura...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky ses

RE: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Boyle Owen
t: Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem What if I have a session clustering mechanism which works asynchronously, so if host A fails, then the sessions will be replicated to server B in several seconds, and if the session is sticky and request is moved to B, on

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Onur Ağın
What if I have a session clustering mechanism which works asynchronously, so if host A fails, then the sessions will be replicated to server B in several seconds, and if the session is sticky and request is moved to B, only request that will come on that second will fail. But if the load balancer i

RE: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Boyle Owen
> "The downside is that if the desired server is really down, the request > will eventually fail." > > I wouldn't want this, the reason why I am using a load balancer is to have high availability, > not just to balance a load. > > How can I overcome this? >

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Onur Ağın
"The downside is that if the desired server is really down, the request will eventually fail." I wouldn't want this, the reason why I am using a load balancer is to have high availability, not just to balance a load. How can I overcome this? Aren't there any alternatives? Also what does it mean

RE: [us...@httpd] Load balancer sticky session problem

2009-11-24 Thread Boyle Owen
Try adding "nofailover=On" to the Proxy tag, ie ... By default, if the desired balancer member is busy, the request will be routed to another one, even if the stickysession doesn't match (this is "failover"). To force apache to hold the request until the server is free again, you need to switch