Until all of the requests being treated by the old haproxy process are complete the process will still be present. We definitely see both haproxy process' for a certain period of time after we reload the haproxy server.
Are you certain that it's a single long running request? If it is you should still see the process while the connection is open. -JohnF > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Hirose [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: January 6, 2010 3:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: # of haproxy processes after a -sf > > haproxy process running, processing one very long request. I run > another haproxy -sf, which does the whole reload, etc stuff. The long > request (ldap database query) continues on its way. :) So that's good > :) > > But I thought the old process would stick around until that entire > request was done, even though the new haproxy process is now running > and processing all new incoming requests and doing the balancing, etc. > > But a quick ps -auxw | grep haproxy shows only one process. I just > expected two. I guess it's ok, since the big long request continues > (doesn't get aborted), and the new config file parameters are working > fine, and new incoming connections are being processed :) > > Anyway, just thought I'd ask on that :) > Thank you, > PH > >
