http-reuse won't serve the purpose here as it needs sessions to persist from client side for being able to reuse them for other sessions' requests.
You are right a real connection pool is what I am looking for. On Sep 23, 2015 6:50 PM, "Baptiste" <bed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Pradeep Jindal <praddyjin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know of a way to keep connections alive on the server side > > irrespective of whether clients close them or not? > > > > HAProxy keeps a connection alive to the server only if the corresponding > > client side connection is still up. So, essentially server side > keepalive is > > only supported if client side keepalive is also there otherwise, haproxy > > closes the server side connection as soon as the client closes it. > > > > It'll be useful, in HTTP mode, to keep server side connections alive so > that > > those can be used a firehouse pipes to the backend servers and requests > can > > be round-robin over those kept alive connections accordingly. > > > > - Pradeep Jindal > > > Hi Pradeep, > > http-reuse implemented might help a bit your case: > > http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/snapshot/configuration-1.6.html#http-reuse > > That said, what you want might be a real connection pool, which > doesn't exist yet in HAProxy. > > Baptiste >
