Why does "Forced Offline" finish off active connections

Hi Chris,

 

 

The disabled option is to drain connections from the selected pool member. This is used in a lot of shops where user sessions are origin server specific. Most of the time, an operator would disable the relevant pool members, wait some length of time, then force the rest of the connections offline.

 

 

If you want to truly kill off every active connection to a pool member, you need to go to the origin server and manually stop the service in question.

 

 

I'd say that if you aren't using persistence and your connections are short-lived this shouldn't be much of a problem. If it is a longer-lived connection (streaming media or binary data), then it is a bit more difficult to handle gracefully.

 

 

-George