DOC: config: provide some configuration hints for "http-reuse"

This adds some configuration hints regarding various workloads that do
not manage to achieve high reuse rates due to too low a global maxconn
or thread groups.

This fixes github issue #1472.
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Willy Tarreau 2022-11-25 09:17:18 +01:00
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@ -7973,7 +7973,26 @@ http-reuse { never | safe | aggressive | always }
because almost no new connection will be established while idle connections
remain available. This is particularly true with the "always" strategy.
See also : "option http-keep-alive", "server maxconn"
The rules to decide to keep an idle connection opened or to close it after
processing are also governed by the "tune.pool-low-fd-ratio" (default: 20%)
and "tune.pool-high-fd-ratio" (default: 25%). These correspond to the
percentage of total file descriptors spent in idle connections above which
haproxy will respectively refrain from keeping a connection opened after a
response, and actively kill idle connections. Some setups using a very high
ratio of idle connections, either because of too low a global "maxconn", or
due to a lot of HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 traffic on the frontend (few connections)
but HTTP/1 connections on the backend, may observe a lower reuse rate because
too few connections are kept open. It may be desirable in this case to adjust
such thresholds or simply to increase the global "maxconn" value.
Similarly, when thread groups are explicitly enabled, it is important to
understand that idle connections are only usable between threads from a same
group. As such it may happen that unfair load between groups leads to more
idle connections being needed, causing a lower reuse rate. The same solution
may then be applied (increase global "maxconn" or increase pool ratios).
See also : "option http-keep-alive", "server maxconn", "thread-groups",
"tune.pool-high-fd-ratio", "tune.pool-low-fd-ratio"
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