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Server Options for HTTP Multiplexing
Once a server sends a complete response to a client request, instead of closing the server
connection, Equalizer keeps the connection open and places a record for the connection into a pool
of connections available for re-use. The connection will be re-used by Equalizer when another
client request is load balanced to the same server.
The reusable connection pool record for a server connection is only removed when either the
server closes the connection, or the
Reused Connection Timeout
expires (see below).
The following server parameters for HTTP multiplexing control the size of the connection re-use
pool.
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Maximum Reused Connections ( An integer specifying the maximum number of reusable con-
nection entries for this server allowed in the reusable server pool. The default is 0 , which
means that there is no limit on the number of reusable connection pool entries.
If you have HTTP multiplexing enabled and CPU or memory usage on Equalizer is sig-
nificant, you can use this parameter to limit the size of the reusable connection pool --
which in turn limits the amount of memory and CPU resources used to manage HTTP mul-
tiplexing.
You may also want to limit the number of reused connections to a server if the server is
experiencing resource issues related to maintaining open connections with Equalizer.
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Reused Connection Timeout (
The number of seconds after which a connection record for an
idle connection in the reusable connection pool is removed, and the connection closed. The
default value is
0 seconds, which means that records in the reusable connections pool never
expire.
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