[mod_cluster-dev] Session temporarily unavailable

[Brian Stansberry]

If you shut down node 1 cleanly, it should be telling httpd itself that 
it's gone.

Bela Ban wrote:
> When I have 2 nodes (node1, node2), and a session which is created on 
> node1 (and replicated to node2), the following can happen:
> 
>     * I shut down node1 (CTRL-C)
>     * node1 terminates cleanly
>     * I access the webapp, but get a "Session temporarily unavailable"
>       failure message (I guess a 500)
>     * When I check mod-cluster-manager, information about node1 is still
>       there !
>     * Ca 5 seconds later, mod-cluster-manager doesn't show node1 anymore
>     * When I now access the webapp, I get the proper failed over session
>       on node2 and all my data is still there
> 
> 
> So my question is why doesn't node2 immediately tell httpd/mod-cluster 
> that node1 is gone ? It seems that httpd *itself* only learns about this 
> when it pings the socket to node1...
> 
> I recall Paul once telling me we hadn't implemented that functionality, 
> but I guess by now this is surely implemented ?
> 


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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com