Re: data-sychronization and file service? Web approach

[Christophe Massiot <cmassiot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:35:05PM -0400, Andreas Schiffler wrote:

> The question is, what happens to the clients who are connected when I
> drop a server entry on the director and if there is a nicer way - maybe

The connection gets immediately "reset by peer".

> by manipulating the weights of the scheduler - to "gradually" take a
> server offline for updating purposes.

The typical approach is to change the weight of the realserver to 0, and
wait until all connections are closed. That shouldn't take long in case
of a web servers cluster.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.