Hi,
> I'm currently attempting to replace our commercial Loadbalancer with SSL > termination with haproxy. I'm running it on FreeBSD 9.2 Stable. > > We have thousands of requests per second and for a while everything runs > extremely smooth. No queues are running full, machine load is at 0.5, > haproxy is at 2-3% CPU per process. > > Then after an undetermined amount of time one process after another > (we're running with nbproc) is locked up with 100% CPU and does not > recover. Eventually all listen queues are filled to the max and I have > to kill and restart haproxy. Very bad. You don't have strace on freebsd x64, correct? Can you downgrade to dev22 in absence of a better advise? > All I know so far is that it happens more frequently in peak traffic > times. Also I have tried to use the option httpclose because I thought > it was related to keep-alive issues. When I have tried this, instead of > locking up at 100%, haproxy suddenly exits with a core dump. Can you provide backtraces or executable + coredump? I suggest you do that privately to Willy, as it will contain your private data (like certificates, etc). Regards, Lukas