Hi Lukas, > I did not meant no-reuseport to workaround or "solve" the problem definitely, but rather to see if the problems can still be triggered, since you can reproduce the problem easily.
This still happens using snapshot 20161005 with no-reuseport set, a bit less probably because reload is faster. Here is what I observe after reloading 50 times, waiting 0.1 sec between each: $ ps fauxww | tail -9 root 50253 0.1 0.0 46340 1820 ? Ss 10:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy-systemd-wrapper -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid haproxy 51003 0.0 0.0 78256 9144 ? S 10:44 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51000 haproxy 51025 0.3 0.0 78256 9208 ? Ss 10:44 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51000 haproxy 51777 0.0 0.0 78256 9144 ? S 10:44 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51771 haproxy 51834 0.3 0.0 78256 9208 ? Ss 10:44 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51771 haproxy 51800 0.0 0.0 78256 9140 ? S 10:44 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51785 haproxy 51819 0.3 0.0 78256 9204 ? Ss 10:44 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 51785 haproxy 52083 0.0 0.0 78256 9144 ? S 10:47 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 52076 haproxy 52084 0.3 0.0 78256 3308 ? Ss 10:47 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 52076 $ sudo ss -tanp |grep -i listen | grep 80 LISTEN 0 128 *:80 *:* users:(("haproxy",pid=52084,fd=8)) LISTEN 0 128 *:8080 *:* users:(("haproxy",pid=52084,fd=6)) LISTEN 0 128 10.5.6.7:8000 *:* users:(("haproxy",pid=52084,fd=7)) $ head -12 /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg global log 127.0.0.1 local0 warning log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice maxconn 262144 user haproxy group haproxy nbproc 1 chroot /var/lib/haproxy pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid stats socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats noreuseport Definitely, some instances seems to be "lost" (not referenced by another) and will never be stopped. In that case it will not impact the config consistency as only one is bound to the socket, but the reload is far less transparent from a network point of view. Pierre