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Subject: Re: maxActiveConnections usage
From: Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa@gopivotal.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:24:30 -0400
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On Aug 13, 2013, at 6:43 AM, "Smith, Mitchell" <mitchell.smith@cwc.com> =
wrote:

> Hi,
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What version of Tomcat are you using?  6.0.x or 7.0.x?

> I was looking at using the maxActiveConnections in the application =
context,

Please include the relevant configuration from your server.xml or =
context.xml file.

> what I find is. When I reach the limit, as expected the server will =
not
> create a new session, however does return a http 200 status code.
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> I am wondering would it be possible for me to change this behavior to
> return say a 300 range code to redirect to (in a production =
environment)
> load balancer.
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> I can see some potential issues with this, like the possibility of an
> infinite loop, but for now I am just exploring possible ways to =
prevent my
> tomcat servers becoming overloaded.

How do you have your load balancer setup now?  What software / hardware =
are you using?  What algorithm is it using to distribute the load?

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> Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas for this type of solution?

Perhaps you need to adjust the load balancer so it's spreading out the =
connections more evenly?  Perhaps you need to add another node to handle =
the load?

Dan


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> Regards
> --=20
> *Mitchell Smith
> *
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