Greetings Willy, everyone,
Had version 1.3.19, compiled from sources, and just upgraded to
1.3.20. The backend server that's being used for the upload is an
Apache + mod_php. I've done the following in haproxy's configuration:
set timeout client to 1s and timeout server to 8s. Started an image
upload and after what seemed like 8 secs: "504 Gateway Time-out, The
server didn't respond in time". I can see that the Apache PHP process
keeps running and processes the upload, about one or two seconds after.
Taking into account your explanation of HAProxy's behavior, this is
probably some misconfiguration on my side, either Apache or PHP, but I
can't really see what could be the problem. It looks like Apache is
not showing any activity until all the file has been sent by the
client, which is strange because Apache should generate activity and
the timeout server timer should be reset throughout the upload...
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks so much.
Pedro.
On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Pedro Mata-Mouros Fonseca
wrote:
Greetings,
Picking this up again, there's a little problem. The directives
timeout client and timeout server should be set to the same value.
Imagine an upload scenario again. Imagine that both timeout
directives
are set to 8s (or 30s, or 120s, it doesn't really matter). Client
starts uploading and data is being sent to the server. Client timeout
counter is not reached because data is being sent, as John said
earlier. However, if uploading takes more than 8s (in this example),
the timeout server is swiftly activated...
No, not at all. The timeout is reset each time there is activity.
This means that during the upload from the client to the server,
both timeouts are constantly refreshed. However, if the server
suddenly stops reading the data, its timeout will eventually
expire.
Any obvious way to go around this, aside from increasing the
timeouts?
I don't want to increase them because I don't really know how much
time an upload can take. I also know that a very obvious solution
would be to have all uploads go to a different domain and not pass by
HAProxy. Anyone dealt with this problem already?
It's already OK. Try it. Some people on this list deal with uploads
of gigabytes during more than one hour. So I'm pretty sure it's
working
OK. However, one old version (1.3.15.2 I think, but I may be wrong)
had
a bug which could cause what you describe. I don't think there are
many
such versions in the wild given that there have been 8 patches since.
Willy
