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fenderb_312187
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Mar 01, 2017

Speeding connection draining by forcibly closing http keep-alive?

It is a common pattern when doing rolling restarts/changes to members of a HTTP pool to take a member out of service, wait for connections to drop to zero, then do your maintenance there and put it b...
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Vijay_E
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Mar 01, 2017

More than HTTP Keepalive, it is the persistence that could cause connection to last longer on a pool member. You can use "forced-offline" or "reselect" option within the pool to select another pool member, if your application can handle the transition.