On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:15:33PM -0400, John Lauro wrote: > Sounds like the biggest part of hot restarts is the cost of leaving the old > process running as they have a lot of long running TCP connections, and if > you do a lot of restarts the memory requirements build up. Not much of an > issue for short lived http requests (although it would be nice if keep > alive wasn't followed on the old haproxy processes so they could die > quicker).
Exactly, which is why we've been working towards adding unlimited servers as this is essentially the only reason for restarting nowadays, e.g. when you need to add more servers than you had initially planned and already maxed out your server-template reserve :-) Willy
