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Jason_Hook_4092
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Dec 16, 2009

HTTP Keep-alive holding connection to disabled server

We have x number of servers in a pool and they are configured with HTTP keep-alives enabled. When one of the servers needs maintenance or is getting sick, we go into the pool member list and select t...
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Apr 21, 2010
I've gotten back to this and that setting doesn't seem to work with HTTP Keep-alives enabled in IIS6. When manually diabling the member and when causing the monitor to fail and take the member down, I continue to make requests to the same "down" server due to HTTP Keep-alive.

 

 

Other thoughts?

 

 

I don't really want to disable HTTP Keep-alive for performance reasons, but if I can't take a failing member out of the request flow without recycling the application...I might have to disable them and lose some performance.