On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:23:57PM -0400, Chris Riley wrote: > Hi Willy, > > Thanks for your quick reply. > > > It should work better but will very likely hide the root cause. I suspect > > you'll find two processes running after a reload because the old one > > doesn't stop then. > > Yep, that's exactly what I'm seeing with 3.10. I've got a bunch of haproxy > processes stacked up, all with an -sf flag and each being passed the PID of > the previous process. The only one not in the process list is the initial > haproxy instance created when 'service haproxy start' was first run. > > lb-01 ~ [qa] # ps ax | grep hap > 2834 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2822 > 2871 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2859 > 2883 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2871 > 2910 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2896 > 2922 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2910 > 2947 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2934 > 2959 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2947 > 2962 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto hap
These ones don't all match, in fact only the last one is fine. That's strange. > > That would confirm the possibility that the signal is not sent at all, > > or at least not to the right process. Could you check the exact command > > that is started, to ensure the pids are correct (or present at all) ? > > Can you also try by hand to first send SIGUSR1 to the old process, > > then perform the reload, then send SIGTTOU by hand to the old one ? > > If it works, it would confirm an issue with the ability to send a > > signal to the old process from the new one. > > 'service haproxy start' invokes this: > > daemon $exec -D -f /etc/$prog/$prog.cfg -p /var/run/$prog.pid > > which produces: > > usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /var/run/haproxy.pid > > ps ax shows: > > 2822 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid > > cat /var/run/haproxy.pid shows: > 2822 > > 'service haproxy reload' invokes this: > > $exec -D -f /etc/$prog/$prog.cfg -p /var/run/$prog.pid -sf $(cat > /var/run/$prog.pid) OK so there is no reason for it not to work. > which produces: > > 2834 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy -D -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg > -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf 2822 > > cat /var/run/haproxy.pid then shows: > 2834 > > I'll try manually sending SIGUSR1 and SIGTTOU as you suggested and see if I > can determine what's happening. Yes that will definitely help. > > Any chance that this issue is related to or that same as this one? > > https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/48 Looks similar indeed. RHEL has selinux enabled by default I believe, I don't know if that could prevent haproxy from sending a signal to another process. Maybe you can try to stop it (if enabled at all). Regards, Willy

