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Release It!
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Release It!

by Michael T. Nygard
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
9h 3m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Does the Condition Respond to Treatment?

One of my Perl scripts could set the value of any property on any component. As an experiment, I used the script to set max for that resource pool (on just one DRP) to zero, and I set checkoutBlockTime to zero. Nothing happened. No change in behavior at all. Then I remembered that max has an effect only when the pool is starting up.

I used another script, one that could invoke methods on the component, to call its stopService and startService methods. Voila! That DRP started handling requests again! There was much rejoicing.

Of course, because only one DRP was responding, the load manager started sending every single page request to that one DRP. It was crushed like the last open beer stand at a World ...

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