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*From:* Patrick Hemmer [mailto:hapr...@stormcloud9.net]
*Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019, 11:50 EDT
*To:* HAProxy <haproxy@formilux.org>
*Subject:* fullconn not working

I'm trying to get fullconn working, and can't seem to do so. I dunno if it's a bug, or if it's my understanding that's wrong. Basically my goal is to prevent the cumulative total of all connections to all servers in a pool from exceeding a certain value. For example I might have 10 servers, each with a maxconn of 10. But I want to configure haproxy with a pool-wide limit of 50, so that even if the connections are well distributed and no one server is maxed out, after 50 connections to all servers, haproxy will still start to queue instead.

fullconn seems like the right way to accomplish this, however I cannot get it to work. I've tried a simple setup of 2 servers, each with `maxconn 3`, and then a backend `fullconn 2`, which should result in queuing after 2 simultaneous connections, however it doesn't. If I send 4 connections, all 4 are simultaneously sent to the backend servers.

Here's my test config:
defaults
    log 127.0.0.1:1234 daemon
    mode http
    option httplog
    timeout queue 5s
frontend f1
    bind :8001
    default_backend b1
backend b1
    fullconn 2
    server s1 127.0.0.1:8081 minconn 1 maxconn 3
    server s2 127.0.0.1:8081 minconn 1 maxconn 3

Here's how I test:
for i in {1..4}; do curl "http://localhost:8001/?sleep=2&num=$i"; & done

And here's the logs:
<30>Jun 28 11:37:47 haproxy[75322]: 127.0.0.1:55119 [28/Jun/2019:11:37:45.658] f1 b1/s2 0/0/0/2003/2003 200 75 - - ---- 4/4/3/2/0 0/0 "GET /?sleep=2&num=3 HTTP/1.1" <30>Jun 28 11:37:47 haproxy[75322]: 127.0.0.1:55117 [28/Jun/2019:11:37:45.658] f1 b1/s2 0/0/0/2003/2003 200 75 - - ---- 4/4/2/1/0 0/0 "GET /?sleep=2&num=4 HTTP/1.1" <30>Jun 28 11:37:47 haproxy[75322]: 127.0.0.1:55118 [28/Jun/2019:11:37:45.658] f1 b1/s1 0/0/0/2003/2003 200 75 - - ---- 4/4/1/2/0 0/0 "GET /?sleep=2&num=1 HTTP/1.1" <30>Jun 28 11:37:47 haproxy[75322]: 127.0.0.1:55120 [28/Jun/2019:11:37:45.658] f1 b1/s1 0/0/0/2003/2003 200 75 - - ---- 4/4/0/1/0 0/0 "GET /?sleep=2&num=2 HTTP/1.1"


So am I misunderstanding how fullconn works? Or is there a bug?
I've tested with 2.0.1, 1.9.8, and 1.8.13.

-Patrick

Anyone with any thoughts on this? Anyone using fullconn successfully?

As an additional item of note that makes me suspect this is a bug even more is that when viewing the stats page, it shows the number of sessions is greater than the limit.


-Patrick

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