It would get unresponsive if there are no task threads configured.

-- Leif 



> On Apr 28, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Alan Carroll <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> One thing to note is the new remap configuration is loaded, or it is not. The 
> change over is atomic (for new transactions - already existing transactions 
> continue with the old remap configuration). I have to agree with James that 
> I've never heard of ATS becoming unresponsive during a configuration reload - 
> depending on the configuration it may take a minute or two to load the new 
> configuration, but ATS should continue to operate on the old configuration 
> until then. If it's not, that's a bug that needs to be fixed.
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, April 27, 2015 6:27 PM, James Peach <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Pushkar Sachdeva <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi ATS community,
> > 
> > This is Pushkar from company Yahoo!. We have a use-case where we want to 
> > avoid ATS restarts on new ATS remap rules deployment. For that we plan to 
> > use 'sudo traffic_line -x' command to reload the ATS config instead of 
> > doing a ATS restart. The problem is that after the reload we want to test 
> > the new rules by running some sanity tests (http/https requests)  against 
> > ATS to make sure it is responding as expected. I have heard that after the 
> > 'traffic_line -x' command the traffic server can become unresponsive for 
> > sometime (0-2 mins) before it completely loads the config again and is 
> > ready to serve the new requests.
> 
> AFAIK this is not correct.
> 
> > This undeterministic behavior is a problem as we don't know when ATS is 
> > ready to take up new requests and therefore don't know when should we run 
> > the sanity tests.  Any timed out sanity tests requests are treated as 
> > failures. Also we cannot have large timeout values for the tests. Is there 
> > any deterministic way to find out when ATS is ready to take up new requests 
> > after 'traffic_line -x' command is executed (any stat/config I can look for 
> > to confirm that the new config load has completed)?
> 
> There’s a number of relevant metrics:
> 
> proxy.node.config.reconfigure_time - timestamp of the last reconfiguration
> proxy.node.config.reconfigure_required - whether a reconfiguration is required
> proxy.node.config.restart_required.* - whether one of the daemon processes 
> needs to be restarted
> 
> 
> > In the worst case we can probably put a sleep for 1-2 mins before we run 
> > the sanity tests but was wondering if there is a better way to handle this ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Pushkar
> 
> 

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