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Thanks to the previous commit, it is now possible to know how many events
were processed for a given sft/server sink pair. As mentioned in commit
c454296 ("OPTIM: sink: balance applets accross threads"), let's provide
the ability to restart a server connection when a certain amount of events
were processed to help better balance the load over multiple threads.
For this, we make use the of "max-reuse" server keyword which was only
relevant under "http" context so far. Under sink context, "max-reuse"
corresponds to the number of times the tcp connection can be reused
for sending messages, which in fact means that "max-reuse + 1" is the
number of events (ie: messages) that are allowed to be sent using the
same tcp server connection: when this threshold is met, the connection
will be destroyed and a new one will be created on a random thread.
The value is not strict: it is the minimum value above which the
connection may be destroyed since the value is checked after
ring_dispatch_messages() which may process multiple messages at once.
By default, no limit is enforced (the connection will be reused for as
long as it is available).
The documentation was updated accordingly.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.