Hi Marcin,

Thank you for your careful analysis.

Your connectionTimeout on the tomcat side is way too low. This timeout
is meant for cutting connections after a longer idle time. It should
coincide with the connection_pool_timeout of mod_jk (although tomcat
uses milliseconds and mod_jk seconds). Normal values are 10 minutes or
maybe 1 minute.

Concerning your question, what could be blocking between forwarding the
headers and the body: reading the request body from the browser sits in
between. If you increase the JklogLevel to trace, you will find an
"enter" and an "exit" message for the nested functions
ajp_read_into_msg_buff() and ajp_read_fully_from_server() which read the
POST body from the browser (via apache methods). Most likely you will
find out, that the time passes by between enter and exit of
ajp_read_fully_from_server().

Hope that helps?

Regards,

Rainer

Marcin Zaj?czkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I observe in mod_jk's log errors:
> [error] ajp_get_reply::jk_ajp_common.c (1566): (ajp13w) Tomcat is down
> or refused connection. No response has been sent to the client (yet)
>
> In the rush hours (20-30 requests/second) up to several entries per hour.
> Sometimes it's followed by:
> [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (1928): (ajp13w) Connecting to
> tomcat failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the
> wrong port
> or
> [error] ajp_connection_tcp_get_message::jk_ajp_common.c (948): (ajp13w)
> can't receive the response message from tomcat, network problems or
> tomcat is down (127.0.0.1:8009), err=-104
>
> but usually it is covered by another retries. It's corresponding to
> exception in tomcat:
> ERROR [org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest] Error decoding request
> java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
>
> *Note* Post is quite long because of info from logs. To get know what it
> is about it is enough to read descriptions next to numbers.
>
>
> I increased logs granularity (mod_jk and tomcat + tcpdump) and in a few
> checked issues it looks like:
>
> *1*. mod_jk talks with tomcat and some request is serviced.
>
> (...)
> [11:10:30] [debug] ajp_process_callback::jk_ajp_common.c (1491): AJP13
> protocol: Reuse is OK
> [debug] ajp_done::jk_ajp_common.c (2258): recycling connection pool
> slot=0 for worker ajp13w
> [debug] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2126): Service finished with status=200
> for worker=wlb
>
> *2*. A few seconds later thread is used again by an another request.
>
> [11:10:32] [debug] wc_get_worker_for_name::jk_worker.c (114): found a
> worker wlb
> [debug] wc_get_name_for_type::jk_worker.c (290): Found worker type 'lb'
> [debug] init_ws_service::mod_jk.c (584): Service protocol=HTTP/1.1
> method=POST (...)
> [debug] service::jk_lb_worker.c (840): service sticky_session=1
> id='8A49C0D934C8A115342BA5CBFC79C434'
> [debug] service::jk_lb_worker.c (860): service worker=ajp13w route=ajp13w
> [debug] ajp_get_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (2315): acquired connection
> pool slot=0
> [debug] ajp_marshal_into_msgb::jk_ajp_common.c (548): ajp marshaling done
> [debug] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (1771): processing ajp13w with 2
> retries
> [debug] ajp_connection_tcp_send_message::jk_ajp_common.c (893): sending
> to ajp13 pos=4 len=307 max=8192
> (...) [header is sent and it is received by tomcat]
>
> *3*.
> a) mod_jk tries to send body:
>
> [11:10:32] [debug] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1273): request
> body to send 646 - request body to resend 0
>
> b) tomcat is waiting for it:
> DEBUG [org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket] Call next 0
> org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest@(protected)
> DEBUG [org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest] Handling 2
> DEBUG [org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket] receive()
>
> *4*. 5 seconds later (connector timeout is 5000ms) tomcat throws exception:
> [11:10:37] ERROR [org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest] Error decoding
> request
> java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
> and resets connection (regarding to tcpdump log)
>
> *5*. A few more seconds later (e.g. 8 from point 3) mod_jk starts
> sending a body:
> [11:10:40] [debug] ajp_connection_tcp_send_message::jk_ajp_common.c
> (893): sending to ajp13 pos=4 len=652 max=8192
> [debug] ajp_connection_tcp_send_message::jk_ajp_common.c (893): 0000 12
> 34 02 88 02 86 3C 3F (...) [body's dump]
>
> *6*. Unfortunately connection was already reseted by tomcat and mod_jk
> got info about that:
> [11:10:40] [info] ajp_connection_tcp_get_message::jk_ajp_common.c
> (942): (ajp13w) Tomcat has forced a connection close for socket 28
> [error] ajp_get_reply::jk_ajp_common.c (1566): (ajp13w) Tomcat is down
> or refused connection. No response has been sent to the client (yet)
> [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (1877): (ajp13w) receiving from
> tomcat failed, recoverable operation attempt=0
>
> *7*. mod_jk tries to do send request again to tomcat:
> [11:10:40] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (1916): (ajp13w) sending
> request to tomcat failed, recoverable operation attempt=1
> [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (335): socket TCP_NODELAY set to On
> [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (433): trying to connect socket 28
> to 127.0.0.1:8009
> [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (459): socket 28 connected to
> 127.0.0.1:8009
> [debug] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (847): Connected socket
> 28 to (127.0.0.1:8009)
> [debug] ajp_connection_tcp_send_message::jk_ajp_common.c (893): sending
> to ajp13 pos=4 len=307 max=8192
>
> Usually (but not always) it is able to do that without errors.
>
> I sniffed into mod_jk source code, but I haven't found a place where it
> can stuck.
>
>
> *Question*
> What can be delay (about 8 seconds) in mod_jk between sending HTTP
> header and HTTP content caused by?
>
>
> I use Apache 2.0.52 (with MPM prefork), mod_jk 1.2.20, JBoss 3.2.5 with
> Tomcat 5.0 (probably 5.0.27) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.
>
> mod_jk configuration is quite simple, without load balancing (and wasn't
> changed for years).
>
> <workers.properties>
> workers.tomcat_home=/jboss/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar
> workers.java_home=/jboss/java
> ps=/
>
> worker.list=wlb,jkstatus
>
> worker.ajp13w.type=ajp13
> worker.ajp13w.host=localhost
> worker.ajp13w.port=8009
>
> worker.wlb.type=lb
> worker.wlb.balance_workers=ajp13w
> </workers.properties>
>
> The only change in mod_jk config was:
> JkShmSize 1024k
>
> <servel.xml>
>     <Connector port="8009" address="127.0.0.1"
>     minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="100"
>     enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" debug="0"
>     connectionTimeout="5000" useURIValidationHack="false"
>     protocol="AJP/1.3"/>
> </servel.xml>
>
>
> Thanks for your advice
> Marcin

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