Sounds good. If I use the external file, will HAProxy reload it if the modification timestamp changes? Or do I need to explicitly send a reload signal?
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Baptiste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > there is no performance drop of loading from a file or directly in the > config file. > That said, if you have multiple ACLs with the same name loading many > IPs, then you'll perform as many lookups as you have ACLs... While > loading content from a file would perform a single lookup. > Anyway, there should not be any noticeable performance impact, since > IP lookup is very quick in HAProxy (a few hundred of nano second in a > tree of 1.000.000 IPs). > > Concerning comments, any string after a dash '#' is considered as a > comment and not loaded in the ACL. > > Baptiste > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Nathan Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We use a file for about 40 cidr blocks, and don't have any problems with > > load speed. Presumably large means more than that, though. > > > > We use comments as well, but they have to be at the beginning of their > own > > line, not tagged on after the address. > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 9:09 PM CJ Ess <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> When doing a large number of IP based ACLs in HAProxy, is it more > >> efficient to load the ACLs from a file with the -f argument? Or is just > as > >> good to use multiple ACL statements in the cfg file? > >> > >> If I did use a file with the -f parameter, is it possible to put > comments > >> in the file? > >> > > >
