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It has never been permitted to explicitly reference named defaults
sections for which there are duplicate names. This means that when
a duplicate defaults section is found, there's no point in keeping
it since it will never be used for lookups, so it can be dropped.
However, some such defaults sections might have some rules in them
that are implicitly referenced by proxies placed after them. In this
case they cannot be removed.
What is done here is that upon each new named section creation, if
another one is found with the same name, its config location is stored
into the new proxy's {prev_file,prev_line} pair, and the old section is
either destroyed if its refcount is null, or just unindexed. The dup
check when creating a new proxy now consists in checking the prev_line
instead of performing a dup lookup on the defaults section.
This will guarantee that we can't find duplicate defaults sections in
their tree anymore, while still keeping track of what's allocated and
releasing everything upon exit.
Beyond the consistency gain, there are nice savings for large configs
involving many defaults sections: a test with 300k sections saved
about 1.9 GB of RAM, and started 25% faster likely thanks to spending
less time allocating memory.
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.