On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Hayden James <hayden.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does haproxy currently have the ability to be able to alter the backends > (add servers, remove servers, etc) without having to restart the process > and potentially dropping existing connections? > > I've read online about various techniques to get around dropped > connections like starting a new instance, dropping SYN packets, etc, but it > seems like a hack to workaround this current limitation. Is this an > existing feature yet or one that is planned for the near future by anyone? > > Thanks! > Hi Hayden, How do you reload your HAProxy configuration? You should save pids in a file and give them as argument to '-sf' haproxy statement. Then HAProxy won't drop any existing connections! Baptiste
