svn commit: r1649182 - in /tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs: miscellaneous/changelog.xml reference/workers.xml

[rj...@apache.org]

Author: rjung
Date: Sat Jan  3 09:50:10 2015
New Revision: 1649182

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1649182
Log:
BZ 44454: LB: Add warning to docs about problems with
"busyness" load balancing method.

Modified:
    tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml
    tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/reference/workers.xml

Modified: tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?rev=1649182&r1=1649181&r2=1649182&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml Sat Jan  3 09:50:10 2015
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@
         JK_IGNORE_CL instead, to let mod_jk ignore an existing Content-Length
         request header. (rjung)
       </fix>
+      <update>
+        <bug>44454</bug>: LB: Add warning to docs about problems with
+        "busyness" load balancing method. (rjung)
+      </update>
     </changelog>
   </subsection>
 </section>

Modified: tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/reference/workers.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/reference/workers.xml?rev=1649182&r1=1649181&r2=1649182&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/reference/workers.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/jk/trunk/xdocs/reference/workers.xml Sat Jan  3 09:50:10 2015
@@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ pick the worker with the lowest current
 worker is currently serving. This number is divided by the workers lbfactor,
 and the lowest value (least busy) worker is picked. This method is especially
 interesting, if your request take a long time to process, like for a download
-application.
+application. The method is not recommended for general use, because under high
+load on some hardware architectures the busy counter can become wrong.
 </p>
 <p>
 This feature has been added in version <b>1.2.9</b>.



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