Hello, I'm trying to examine a case in which we want a balancer member to be set on fail if it can't responde in specific time to the hcheck request This example configuration: <Proxy balancer://appbalancer> # example member 1 BalancerMember http://ip:port/ hcmethod=HEAD hcuri=/ping hcpasses=1 hcfails=1 hcinterval=5 timeout=5 retry=30 # more realistic example member 2 and others BalancerMember http://ip:port/ hcmethod=HEAD hcuri=/ping hcpasses=1 hcfails=1 hcinterval=5 timeout=60 retry=30 BalancerMember http://ip:port/ hcmethod=HEAD hcuri=/ping hcpasses=1 hcfails=1 hcinterval=5 timeout=60 retry=30 BalancerMember http://ip:port/ hcmethod=HEAD hcuri=/ping hcpasses=1 hcfails=1 hcinterval=5 timeout=60 retry=30 BalancerMember http://ip:port/ hcmethod=HEAD hcuri=/ping hcpasses=1 hcfails=1 hcinterval=5 timeout=60 retry=30 </Proxy> ProxyPass /app balancer://appbalancer/app failontimeout=on Let's assume the backend server 1 takes more than 5 seconds for the /ping I would want to be set on fail and the Apache httpd server use the other balancermember, if there are more members in the balancer, for httpd to choose those other members which respond to the ping in a timely fashion, but in my tests, if /ping reply goes above 5 seconds, mod_proxy_hcheck is still saying it is ok. Is my approach correct? As with most initial approaches to a specific scenario, this may very well be the case... still bear with me. Right now if the backend responds to the /ping in for example, 6 seconds, it is not being marked on fail, so as I understand any normal request which lasts more than 5 seconds will, I don´t need hcheck for that but this is just an example, there may be other more real scenarios like the other members I have defined for example Balancermember 2 we set timeout 60 seconds, app takes up to 30-40 seconds to reply to specific requests but suppose we have plenty of balancer members and may want to disable the member when it degrades the /ping reply to more than 10 seconds because that means it is getting degraded. Is it possible to set a timeout for hchecks to set a member as failed? Is my approach correct? As with most initial approaches to a specific scenario, this may very well be the case, which other approach do you suggest? I check there is a change coming to mod_proxy_hcheck, https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1887119, not sure if it applies to my case as it does not seem to mention response timeout, rather than checks piling up. Thanks in advance -- Daniel Ferradal HTTPD Project #httpd help at Freenode --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx