sticky session toggles randomly after the shutdown of the active node

Start httpd and three cluster nodes (as7). Deploy demo application ( http://community.jboss.org/thread/176649 ) and execute test script. Shutdown active server. ... 17 35b94033 18 35b94033 Switch to node 373f8f39 19 373f8f39 Switch to node 965a9ca5 20 965a9ca5 Switch to node 373f8f39 21 373f8f39 22 373f8f39 Switch to node 965a9ca5 23 965a9ca5 24 965a9ca5 Switch to node 373f8f39 ... When server one comes up again, the session stays with the server. ... 51 373f8f39 took 15 seconds Switch to node 35b94033 52 35b94033 53 35b94033 54 35b94033 Server settings: ssl advertise=true advertise-socket=modcluster auto-enable-contexts=true balancer=mycluster excluded-contexts=ROOT,admin-console,invoker,jbossws,jmx-console,juddi,web-console flush-packets=false flush-wait=-1 max-attemps=1 node-timeout=-1 ping=10 proxy-list=/ socket-timeout=20 sticky-session=true sticky-session-force=false sticky-session-remove=false stop-context-timeout=10 ttl=60 worker-timeout=-1