Yes, that works, but there's a window during which neither the old process nor the new process is listening on the socket.
Simon Horman implemented a master/worker model to avoid that downtime, but I guess it's not quite ready to be integrated into the mainline yet. I believe you can find his work at http://haproxy.1wt.eu/git?p=haproxy.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/horms-rebased7 Best, Adam On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:00 PM, John Singleton wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I believe you can just send it a -HUP signal. eg: kill -HUP <pid> > > Best, > JLS > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Kevin Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > Can HA Proxy make graceful configuration changes? Or does the entire proxy > need to be restarted leaving space for downtime? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > > >
