When the processes stack up, the old ones don't respond to anything other
than 'kill -9'.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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