The patches are all cherry picks from the 1.8 branch that i backported to the 1.7 branch. They are all documented with the original development tree sha as well.
Have fun Dave. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 6:16 AM Veiko Kukk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31/05/18 23:15, William Lallemand wrote: > > Sorry but unfortunately we are not backporting features in stable > branches, > > those are only meant for maintenance. > > > > People who want to use the seamless reload should migrate to HAProxy > 1.8, the > > stable team won't support this feature in previous branches. > > > I've been keeping eye on this list about 1.8 related bugs and it does > not seem to me that 1.8 stable enough yet for production use. Too many > reports about high CPU usage and/or crashes. > We are still using 1.6 which finally seems to have stabilized enough for > production. When we started using 1.6 some years ago, we had many issues > with it which caused service interruptions. Would not want to repeat > that again. > > Even with 1.7, processes would hang forever after reload (days, > sometimes weeks or until reboot). Really hard to debug, happens only > under production load. > > I will look at patches provided by Dave. We are building HAproxy rpm-s > for ourselves anyway, applying some patches in spec file does not seem > to be that much additional work if indeed those would provide truly > seamless reloads. > > Best regards, > Veiko > >
