Re: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Rainer Jung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm going to be a real pain, but it make no sense now... Let's see :) The email has been a team effort in our offices. We have included some diagrams to help illustrate our understanding or lack off. Using a simple example: 1/ Assume I have one httpd server (pref

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
Hi I'm going to be a real pain, but it make no sense now... The email has been a team effort in our offices. We have included some diagrams to help illustrate our understanding or lack off. Using a simple example: 1/ Assume I have one httpd server (prefork) that can spawn a maximum of 200 childre

Re: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Rainer Jung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If no value is specified then the maximum connectors is default 200. I assumed that Tomcat would not allow more connections than 200 to be made to port 8009. Why then do we see more than 200 connections on port 8009 on the httpd and tomcat side. Is this additional connec

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
Thanks for your patience, things are starting to make more sense now. > > Tomcat associates one thread with each incoming connection > (at least the default connector) independant of it's > idleness, i.e. even if there is no request coming in. The > connectionTimeout parameter in the connecto

Re: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Rainer Jung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This part is still sligtly confusing to me: We have 575 potential connections that we can except on the httpd server, according to my understanding mod_jk will load balance these connections to the tomcat servers. Thus typically 48 connections per tomcat. This does s

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-30 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 August 2007 21:29 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: apache getting in "sending reply" state when > connecting to tomcat > > Hi Gerhardus, > > you allow 575 parallel requests with Apache. If something > gets slow and you get more a

Re: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-29 Thread Rainer Jung
Hi Gerhardus, you allow 575 parallel requests with Apache. If something gets slow and you get more and more "W" states, this parallelism will really get used. Each parallel requests needs a connection to your Tomcat (unless it gets served directly by Apache), and each connection to Tomcat need

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-29 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
monitoring and testing. I hope that clears up any confusion. Regards > -Original Message- > From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 August 2007 14:18 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state whe

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-29 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when > connecting to tomcat > > I forgot to add, that our solution at the moment is to restart apache > which 9 out of 10 times solves the problems. Plea

RE: apache getting in "sending reply" state when connecting to tomcat

2007-08-29 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
Hi I forgot to add, that our solution at the moment is to restart apache which 9 out of 10 times solves the problems. We see connections reach almost 250 (248,249) per tomcat server on the apache box. After restart this drops down We also only see the problem when we are experiencing heavy load a