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The MEMPROF_HASH_BITS variable was set to 10 without a possibility to change it (beyond patching the code). After seeing a few reports already with "other" being listed and a list with close to 1024 entries, it looks like it's about time to either increase the hash size, or at least make it configurable for special cases. As a reminder, in order to remain fast, the algorithm searches no more than 16 places after the hash, so when a table is almost full, searches are long and new places are rare. The present patch just makes it possible to redefine it by passing "-DMEMPROF_HASH_BITS=11" or "-DMEMPROF_HASH_BITS=12" in CFLAGS, and moves the definition to defaults.h to make it easier to find. Such values should be way sufficient for the vast majority of use cases. Maybe in the future we'd change the default. At least this version should be backported to ease rebuilds, say, till 2.8 or so.
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.