Hi Gustavo,
> I compiled 1.6.3 from source with the options: TARGET=custom USE_PCRE=1 > USE_LINUX_SPLICE=1 USE_LINUX_TPROXY=1 USE_OPENSSL=yes Unless you have a kernel older than 2.6.28, just use the linux2628 target: TARGET=linux2628 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 This will enable all current kernel optimizations and features, including splice, tproxy, accept4(), poll and epoll. In fact you are probably only using select() right now, which is pretty bad (check the output of haproxy -vv to make sure). I would strongly recommend to recompile, unless performance doesn't matter. >> Below is my haproxy.cfg: *If* you would use an ancient release (<= 1.5-dev21) that defaults http-tunnel, http-server-close would indeed be needed, and it would be missing in the photo_upload_backend backend. But since thats not the case, I would suggest you remove http-server-close completely, and let it fall back to keep-alive for all http backends. Whats seems to be missing though is a "mode http" declaration in both lighttpd_backend and photo_upload_backend backends. That is most likely the reason for your problem. So the recommendation is to configure http mode and keep-alive in the default section with proper timeouts (this should fix the issue): default mode http option http-keep-alive option prefer-last-server timeout tunnel 3600s timeout http-keep-alive 1s Also: - remove option http-server-close - recompile with TARGET=linux2628 - cleanup to make the config more obvious: move default_backend below use_backend Regards, Lukas