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Let's provide a default value for fd_hard_limit, if it's not set in the
configuration. With this patch we could set some specific default via
compile-time variable DEFAULT_MAXFD as well. Hope, this will be helpfull for
haproxy package maintainers.
make -j 8 TARGET=linux-glibc DEBUG=-DDEFAULT_MAXFD=50000
If haproxy is comipled without DEFAULT_MAXFD defined, the default will be set
to 1048576.
This is done to avoid killing the process by its watchdog, while it started
without any limitations in its configuration or in the command line and the
hard RLIMIT_NOFILE is extremely huge (~1000000000). We use in this case
compute_ideal_maxconn() to calculate maxconn and maxsock, maxsock defines the
size of internal fdtab, which becames very-very large as well. When
the process starts to simply loop over this fdtab (0(n)), this takes a lot of
time, so watchdog does it job.
To avoid this, maxconn now is always reduced to some reasonable value either
by explicit global.fd-hard-limit from configuration, or by its default. The
default may be changed at build-time and overwritten then by
global.fd-hard-limit at runtime. Explicit global.fd-hard-limit from the
configuration has always precedence over DEFAULT_MAXFD, if set.
Must be backported in all stable versions until v2.6.0, including v2.6.0.
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.