By checking the current thread's locking status, it becomes possible to know during a memory allocation whether it's performed under a lock or not. Both pools and memprofile functions were instrumented to check for this and to increment the memprofile bin's locked_calls counter. This one, when not zero, is reported on "show profiling memory" with a percentage of all allocations that such locked allocations represent. This way it becomes possible to try to target certain code paths that are particularly expensive. Example: $ socat - /tmp/sock1 <<< "show profiling memory"|grep lock 20297301 0 2598054528 0| 0x62a820fa3991 sockaddr_alloc+0x61/0xa3 p_alloc(128) [pool=sockaddr] [locked=54962 (0.2 %)] 0 20297301 0 2598054528| 0x62a820fa3a24 sockaddr_free+0x44/0x59 p_free(-128) [pool=sockaddr] [locked=34300 (0.1 %)] 9908432 0 1268279296 0| 0x62a820eb8524 main+0x81974 p_alloc(128) [pool=task] [locked=9908432 (100.0 %)] 9908432 0 554872192 0| 0x62a820eb85a6 main+0x819f6 p_alloc(56) [pool=tasklet] [locked=9908432 (100.0 %)] 263001 0 63120240 0| 0x62a820fa3c97 conn_new+0x37/0x1b2 p_alloc(240) [pool=connection] [locked=20662 (7.8 %)] 71643 0 47307584 0| 0x62a82105204d pool_get_from_os_noinc+0x12d/0x161 posix_memalign(660) [locked=5393 (7.5 %)]
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.