Martin PAPY wrote:

Hello everybody,

We are using Pound for months now to load balance the traffic between two back end servers, and we have always the same problem and I can't find a good solution.

If one of the backend server (running Apache / Coldfusion ) hangs up (ie : Apache take the connection, but the Application server hangs) Pound don't detect that there is a problem.

You can use Mon to monitor the application server failure. Mon checks the app server and in case of failure (time out) Mon triggers the shutdown of the apache server which will lead pound to consider the backend server as "dead".
Any comments?

Is there a way to configure Pound to consider a backend server as "dead" if the connection reaches a time out ? Or maybe test the result of a specific URL avery "Alive" seconds ?.

I saw the ha_port diective but it is useless in our case...

Best regards,

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