With Linux officially introducing SO_REUSEPORT support in 3.9 and
its mainstream adoption we have seen more people running into strange
SO_REUSEPORT related issues (a process management issue turning into
hard to diagnose problems because the kernel load-balances between the
new and an obsolete haproxy instance).
Also some people simply want the guarantee that the bind fails when
the old process is still bound.
This change makes SO_REUSEPORT configurable, introducing the command
line argument "-dR" and the noreuseport configuration directive.
A backport to 1.6 should be considered.
Enrichment of the 'set server <b>/<s> addr' cli directive to allow changing
now a server's port.
The new syntax looks like:
set server <b>/<s> addr [port <port>]
Introduction of a new CLI command "set server <srv> check-port <port>' to
allow admins to change a server's health check port at run time.
This changes the equivalent of the configuration server parameter
called 'port'.
Today I was working on an auto-update script for some ACLs, and found
that I couldn't load ACL entries with a semi-colon in them no matter
how I tried to escape it.
As such, I wrote this patch (this one is for 1.7dev, but it applies to
1.5 the same with just line numbers changed), which seems to allow me
to execute a command such as "add acl /etc/foo.lst foo\;bar" over the
socket. It's worth noting that stats_sock_parse_request() already uses
the backslash to escape spaces in words so it makes sense to use it as
well to escape the semi-colon.
Tq is the time between the instant the connection is accepted and a
complete valid request is received. This time includes the handshake
(SSL / Proxy-Protocol), the idle when the browser does preconnect and
the request reception.
This patch decomposes %Tq in 3 measurements names %Th, %Ti, and %TR
which returns respectively the handshake time, the idle time and the
duration of valid request reception. It also adds %Ta which reports
the request's active time, which is the total time without %Th nor %Ti.
It replaces %Tt as the total time, reporting accurate measurements for
HTTP persistent connections.
%Th is avalaible for TCP and HTTP sessions, %Ti, %TR and %Ta are only
avalaible for HTTP connections.
In addition to this, we have new timestamps %tr, %trg and %trl, which
log the date of start of receipt of the request, respectively in the
default format, in GMT time and in local time (by analogy with %t, %T
and %Tl). All of them are obviously only available for HTTP. These values
are more relevant as they more accurately represent the request date
without being skewed by a browser's preconnect nor a keep-alive idle
time.
The HTTP log format and the CLF log format have been modified to
use %tr, %TR, and %Ta respectively instead of %t, %Tq and %Tt. This
way the default log formats now produce the expected output for users
who don't want to manually fiddle with the log-format directive.
Example with the following log-format :
log-format "%ci:%cp [%tr] %ft %b/%s h=%Th/i=%Ti/R=%TR/w=%Tw/c=%Tc/r=%Tr/a=%Ta/t=%Tt %ST %B %CC %CS %tsc %ac/%fc/%bc/%sc/%rc %sq/%bq %hr %hs %{+Q}r"
The request was sent by hand using "openssl s_client -connect" :
Aug 23 14:43:20 haproxy[25446]: 127.0.0.1:45636 [23/Aug/2016:14:43:20.221] test~ test/test h=6/i=2375/R=261/w=0/c=1/r=0/a=262/t=2643 200 145 - - ---- 1/1/0/0/0 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"
=> 6 ms of SSL handshake, 2375 waiting before sending the first char (in
fact the time to type the first line), 261 ms before the end of the request,
no time spent in queue, 1 ms spend connecting to the server, immediate
response, total active time for this request = 262ms. Total time from accept
to close : 2643 ms.
The timing now decomposes like this :
first request 2nd request
|<-------------------------------->|<-------------- ...
t tr t tr ...
---|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|--
: Th Ti TR Tw Tc Tr Td : Ti ...
:<---- Tq ---->: :
:<-------------- Tt -------------->:
:<--------- Ta --------->:
Released version 1.7-dev4 with the following main changes :
- MINOR: add list_append_word function
- MEDIUM: init: use list_append_word in haproxy.c
- MEDIUM: init: allow directory as argument of -f
- CLEANUP: config: detect double registration of a config section
- MINOR: log: add the %Td log-format specifier
- MEDIUM: filters: Move HTTP headers filtering in its own callback
- MINOR: filters: Simplify calls to analyzers using 2 new macros
- MEDIUM: filters: Add pre and post analyzer callbacks
- DOC: filters: Update the filters documentation accordingly to recent changes
- BUG/MEDIUM: init: don't use environment locale
- SCRIPTS: teach git-show-backports how to report upstream commits
- SCRIPTS: make git-show-backports capable of limiting its history
- BUG/MAJOR: fix listening IP address storage for frontends
- BUG/MINOR: fix listening IP address storage for frontends (cont)
- DOC: Fix typo so fetch is properly parsed by Cyril's converter
- BUG/MAJOR: http: fix breakage of "reqdeny" causing random crashes
- BUG/MEDIUM: stick-tables: fix breakage in table converters
- MINOR: stick-table: change all stick-table converters' inputs to SMP_T_ANY
- BUG/MEDIUM: dns: unbreak DNS resolver after header fix
- BUILD: fix build on Solaris 11
- BUG/MEDIUM: config: fix multiple declaration of section parsers
- BUG/MEDIUM: stats: show servers state may show an servers from another backend
- BUG/MEDIUM: fix risk of segfault with "show tls-keys"
- MEDIUM: dumpstats: 'show tls-keys' is now able to show secrets
- DOC: update doc about tls-tickets-keys dump
- MEDIUM: tcp: add 'set-src' to 'tcp-request connection'
- MINOR: set the CO_FL_ADDR_FROM_SET flags with 'set-src'
- MEDIUM: tcp/http: add 'set-src-port' action
- MEDIUM: tcp/http: new set-dst/set-dst-port actions
- BUG/MEDIUM: sticktables: segfault in some configuration error cases
- BUILD/MEDIUM: rebuild everything when an include file is changed
- BUILD/MEDIUM: force a full rebuild if some build options change
- BUG/MEDIUM: lua: converters doesn't work
- BUG/MINOR: http: add-header: header name copied twice
- BUG/MEDIUM: http: add-header: buffer overwritten
- BUG/MINOR: ssl: fix potential memory leak in ssl_sock_load_dh_params()
- MINOR: stream: export the function 'smp_create_src_stkctr'
- BUG/MEDIUM: dumpstats: undefined behavior in stats_tlskeys_list()
- MEDIUM: dumpstats: make stats_tlskeys_list() yield-aware during tls-keys dump
- BUG/MINOR: http: url32+src should use the big endian version of url32
- BUG/MINOR: http: url32+src should check cli_conn before using it
- DOC: http: add documentation for url32 and url32+src
- BUG/MINOR: fix http-response set-log-level parsing error
- MINOR: systemd: Use variable for config and pidfile paths
- MINOR: systemd: Perform sanity check on config before reload
- MEDIUM: ssl: support SNI filters with multicerts
- MINOR: ssl: crt-list parsing factor
- BUILD: ssl: fix typo causing a build failure in the multicert patch
- MINOR: listener: add the "accept-netscaler-cip" option to the "bind" keyword
- MINOR: tcp: add "tcp-request connection expect-netscaler-cip layer4"
- BUG/MINOR: init: always ensure that global.rlimit_nofile matches actual limits
- BUG/MINOR: init: ensure that FD limit is raised to the max allowed
- BUG/MEDIUM: external-checks: close all FDs right after the fork()
- BUG/MAJOR: external-checks: use asynchronous signal delivery
- BUG/MINOR: external-checks: do not unblock undesired signals
- CLEANUP: external-check: don't block/unblock SIGCHLD when manipulating the list
- BUG/MEDIUM: filters: Fix data filtering when data are modified
- BUG/MINOR: filters: Fix HTTP parsing when a filter loops on data forwarding
- BUG/MINOR: srv-state: fix incorrect output of state file
- BUG/MINOR: ssl: close ssl key file on error
- BUG/MINOR: http: fix misleading error message for response captures
- BUG/BUILD: don't automatically run "make" on "make install"
- DOC: add missing doc for http-request deny [deny_status <status>]
- CLEANUP: dumpstats: u64 field is an unsigned type.
- BUG/MEDIUM: http: unbreak uri/header/url_param hashing
- BUG/MINOR: Rework slightly commit 9962f8fc to clean code and avoid mistakes
- MINOR: new function my_realloc2 = realloc + free upon failure
- CLEANUP: fixed some usages of realloc leading to memory leak
- Revert "BUG/MINOR: ssl: fix potential memory leak in ssl_sock_load_dh_params()"
- CLEANUP: connection: using internal struct to hold source and dest port.
- DOC: spelling fixes
- BUG/MINOR: ssl: fix potential memory leak in ssl_sock_load_dh_params()
- BUG/MEDIUM: dns: fix alignment issues in the DNS response parser
- BUG/MINOR: Fix endiness issue in DNS header creation code
- BUG/MEDIUM: lua: the function txn_done() from sample fetches can crash
- BUG/MEDIUM: lua: the function txn_done() from action wrapper can crash
- MEDIUM: http: implement http-response track-sc* directive
- BUG/MINOR: peers: Fix peers data decoding issue
- BUG/MINOR: peers: don't count track-sc multiple times on errors
- MINOR: standard: add function "escape_string"
- BUG/MEDIUM: log: use function "escape_string" instead of "escape_chunk"
- MINOR: tcp: Return TCP statistics like RTT and RTT variance
- DOC: lua: remove old functions
- BUG/MEDIUM: lua: somme HTTP manipulation functions are called without valid requests
- DOC: fix json converter example and error message
- BUG/MEDIUM: stream-int: completely detach connection on connect error
- DOC: minor typo fixes to improve HTML parsing by haproxy-dconv
- BUILD: make proto_tcp.c compatible with musl library
- BUG/MAJOR: compression: initialize avail_in/next_in even during flush
- BUG/MEDIUM: samples: make smp_dup() always duplicate the sample
- MINOR: sample: implement smp_is_safe() and smp_make_safe()
- MINOR: sample: provide smp_is_rw() and smp_make_rw()
- BUG/MAJOR: server: the "sni" directive could randomly cause trouble
- BUG/MEDIUM: stick-tables: do not fail on string keys with no allocated size
- BUG/MEDIUM: stick-table: properly convert binary samples to keys
- MINOR: sample: use smp_make_rw() in upper/lower converters
- MINOR: tcp: add dst_is_local and src_is_local
- BUG/MINOR: peers: some updates are pushed twice after a resync.
- BUILD: protocol: fix some build errors on OpenBSD
- BUILD: log: iovec requires to include sys/uio.h on OpenBSD
- BUILD: tcp: do not include netinet/ip.h for IP_TTL
- BUILD: connection: fix build breakage on openbsd due to missing in_systm.h
- BUILD: checks: remove the last strcat and eliminate a warning on OpenBSD
- BUILD: tcp: define SOL_TCP when only IPPROTO_TCP exists
- BUILD: compression: remove a warning when no compression lib is used
- BUILD: poll: remove unused hap_fd_isset() which causes a warning with clang
- MINOR: tcp: add further tcp info fetchers
- BUG/MINOR: peers: empty chunks after a resync.
- BUG/MAJOR: stick-counters: possible crash when using sc_trackers with wrong table
- MINOR: standard.c: ipcmp() function to compare 2 IP addresses stored in 2 struct sockaddr_storage
- MINOR: standard.c: ipcpy() function to copy an IP address from a struct sockaddr_storage into an other one
- MAJOR: listen section: don't use first bind port anymore when no server ports are provided
Adding on to Thierry's work (http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;h=6310bef5)
I have added a few more fetchers for counters based on the tcp_info struct
maintained by the kernel :
fc_unacked, fc_sacked, fc_retrans, fc_fackets, fc_lost,
fc_reordering
Two fields were not added because they're version-dependant :
fc_rcv_rtt, fc_total_retrans
The fields name depend on the operating system. FreeBSD and NetBSD prefix
all the field names with "__" so we have to rely on a few #ifdef for
portability.
It is sometimes needed in application server environments to easily tell
if a source is local to the machine or a remote one, without necessarily
knowing all the local addresses (dhcp, vrrp, etc). Similarly in transparent
proxy configurations it is sometimes desired to tell the difference between
local and remote destination addresses.
This patch adds two new sample fetch functions for this :
dst_is_local : boolean
Returns true if the destination address of the incoming connection is local
to the system, or false if the address doesn't exist on the system, meaning
that it was intercepted in transparent mode. It can be useful to apply
certain rules by default to forwarded traffic and other rules to the traffic
targetting the real address of the machine. For example the stats page could
be delivered only on this address, or SSH access could be locally redirected.
Please note that the check involves a few system calls, so it's better to do
it only once per connection.
src_is_local : boolean
Returns true if the source address of the incoming connection is local to the
system, or false if the address doesn't exist on the system, meaning that it
comes from a remote machine. Note that UNIX addresses are considered local.
It can be useful to apply certain access restrictions based on where the
client comes from (eg: require auth or https for remote machines). Please
note that the check involves a few system calls, so it's better to do it only
once per connection.
The functions "req_replace_value()" and "res_replace_value()"
doesn't exists in the 1.6 version. There inherited from the 1.6dev.
This patch must be backported in 1.6 version
This patch adds 4 new sample fetches which returns the RTT of the
established connexion and the RTT variance. The established connection
can be between the client and HAProxy, and between HAProxy and the
server. This is very useful for statistics. A great use case is the
estimation of the TCP connection time of the client. Note that the
RTT of the server side is not so interesting because we already have
the connect() time.
This enables tracking of sticky counters from current response. The only
difference from "http-request track-sc" is the <key> sample expression
can only make use of samples in response (eg. res.*, status etc.) and
samples below Layer 6.
The function txn_done() ends a transaction. It does not make
sense to call this function from a lua sample-fetch wrapper,
because the role of a sample-fetch is not to terminate a
transaction.
This patch modify the role of the fucntion txn_done() if it
is called from a sample-fetch wrapper, now it just ends the
execution of the Lua code like the done() function.
Must be backported in 1.6
The feature was introduced in 1.6-dev2 by commit 108b1dd ("MEDIUM:
http: configurable http result codes for http-request deny") but the
doc was missing. Thanks to Cyril for noticing.
This must be backported into 1.6.
This configures the client-facing connection to receive a NetScaler
Client IP insertion protocol header before any byte is read from the
socket. This is equivalent to having the "accept-netscaler-cip" keyword
on the "bind" line, except that using the TCP rule allows the PROXY
protocol to be accepted only for certain IP address ranges using an ACL.
This is convenient when multiple layers of load balancers are passed
through by traffic coming from public hosts.
When NetScaler application switch is used as L3+ switch, informations
regarding the original IP and TCP headers are lost as a new TCP
connection is created between the NetScaler and the backend server.
NetScaler provides a feature to insert in the TCP data the original data
that can then be consumed by the backend server.
Specifications and documentations from NetScaler:
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX205670https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/04/25/how-to-enable-client-ip-in-tcpip-option-of-netscaler/
When CIP is enabled on the NetScaler, then a TCP packet is inserted just after
the TCP handshake. This is composed as:
- CIP magic number : 4 bytes
Both sender and receiver have to agree on a magic number so that
they both handle the incoming data as a NetScaler Client IP insertion
packet.
- Header length : 4 bytes
Defines the length on the remaining data.
- IP header : >= 20 bytes if IPv4, 40 bytes if IPv6
Contains the header of the last IP packet sent by the client during TCP
handshake.
- TCP header : >= 20 bytes
Contains the header of the last TCP packet sent by the client during TCP
handshake.
SNI filters used to be ignored with multicerts (eg: those providing
ECDSA and RSA at the same time). This patch makes them work like
other certs.
Note: most of the changes in this patch are due to an extra level of
indent, read it with "git show -b".
The 'set-src' action was not available for tcp actions The action code
has been converted into a function in proto_tcp.c to be used for both
'http-request' and 'tcp-request connection' actions.
Both http and tcp keywords are registered in proto_tcp.c
This patch removes setlocale from the main function. It was introduced
by commit 379d9c7 ("MEDIUM: init: allow directory as argument of -f")
in 1.7-dev a few commits ago after a discussion on the mailing list.
Some regex may have different behaviours depending on the
locale. Some LUA scripts may change their behaviour too
(http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaLocales).
Without this patch (haproxy is using setlocale) :
$ cat locale.cfg
defaults
mode http
frontend test
bind :9000
mode http
use_backend testbk if { hdr_reg(X-Test) ^\w+$ }
backend testbk
mode http
server s 127.0.0.1:80
$ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./haproxy -f locale.cfg
$ curl -i -H "X-Test: chec" localhost:9000
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
$ LANG=C ./haproxy -f locale.cfg
$ curl -i -H "X-Test: chec" localhost:9000
HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable
...
As suggested by Pavlos, it's too bad that we didn't have a %Td log
format tag given that there are a few mentions of Td corresponding
to the data transmission time already in the doc, so this is now done.
Just like the other specifiers, we report -1 if the connection failed
before reaching the data transmission state.
If -f argument is a directory add all the files (and only files) it
containes to the config files list.
These files are added in lexical order (respecting LC_COLLATE).
Only files with ".cfg" extension are added.
Only non hidden files (not prefixed with ".") are added.
Symlink are followed.
The -f order is still respected:
$ tree -a rootdir
rootdir
|-- dir1
||-- .6.cfg
||-- 1.cfg
||-- 2
||-- 3.cfg
||-- 4.cfg -> 1.cfg
||-- 5 -> 1.cfg
||-- 7.cfg -> .
|`-- dir4
|`-- 8.cfg
|-- dir2
||-- 10.cfg
|`-- 9.cfg
|-- dir3
|`-- 11.cfg
|-- link -> dir3/
|-- root1
|-- root2
`-- root3
$ ./haproxy -C rootdir -f root2 -f dir2 -f root3 -f dir1 \
-f link -f root1
root2
dir2/10.cfg
dir2/9.cfg
root3
dir1/1.cfg
dir1/3.cfg
dir1/4.cfg
link/11.cfg
root1
This can be useful on systemd where you can't change the haproxy
commande line options on service reload.
Released version 1.7-dev3 with the following main changes :
- MINOR: sample: Moves ARGS underlying type from 32 to 64 bits.
- BUG/MINOR: log: Don't use strftime() which can clobber timezone if chrooted
- BUILD: namespaces: fix a potential build warning in namespaces.c
- MINOR: da: Using ARG12 macro for the sample fetch and the convertor.
- DOC: add encoding to json converter example
- BUG/MINOR: conf: "listener id" expects integer, but its not checked
- DOC: Clarify tunes.vars.xxx-max-size settings
- CLEANUP: chunk: adding NULL check to chunk_dup allocation.
- CLEANUP: connection: fix double negation on memcmp()
- BUG/MEDIUM: peers: fix incorrect age in frequency counters
- BUG/MEDIUM: Fix RFC5077 resumption when more than TLS_TICKETS_NO are present
- BUG/MAJOR: Fix crash in http_get_fhdr with exactly MAX_HDR_HISTORY headers
- BUG/MINOR: lua: can't load external libraries
- BUG/MINOR: prevent the dump of uninitialized vars
- CLEANUP: map: it seems that the map were planed to be chained
- MINOR: lua: move class registration facilities
- MINOR: lua: remove some useless checks
- CLEANUP: lua: Remove two same functions
- MINOR: lua: refactor the Lua object registration
- MINOR: lua: precise message when a critical error is catched
- MINOR: lua: post initialization
- MINOR: lua: Add internal function which strip spaces
- MINOR: lua: convert field to lua type
- DOC: "addr" parameter applies to both health and agent checks
- DOC: timeout client: pointers to timeout http-request
- DOC: typo on stick-store response
- DOC: stick-table: amend paragraph blaming the loss of table upon reload
- DOC: typo: ACL subdir match
- DOC: typo: maxconn paragraph is wrong due to a wrong buffer size
- DOC: regsub: parser limitation about the inability to use closing square brackets
- DOC: typo: req.uri is now replaced by capture.req.uri
- DOC: name set-gpt0 mismatch with the expected keyword
- MINOR: http: sample fetch which returns unique-id
- MINOR: dumpstats: extract stats fields enum and names
- MINOR: dumpstats: split stats_dump_info_to_buffer() in two parts
- MINOR: dumpstats: split stats_dump_fe_stats() in two parts
- MINOR: dumpstats: split stats_dump_li_stats() in two parts
- MINOR: dumpstats: split stats_dump_sv_stats() in two parts
- MINOR: dumpstats: split stats_dump_be_stats() in two parts
- MINOR: lua: dump general info
- MINOR: lua: add class proxy
- MINOR: lua: add class server
- MINOR: lua: add class listener
- BUG/MEDIUM: stick-tables: some sample-fetch doesn't work in the connection state.
- MEDIUM: proxy: use dynamic allocation for error dumps
- CLEANUP: remove unneeded casts
- CLEANUP: uniformize last argument of malloc/calloc
- DOC: fix "needed" typo
- BUG/MINOR: dumpstats: fix write to global chunk
- BUG/MINOR: dns: inapropriate way out after a resolution timeout
- BUG/MINOR: dns: trigger a DNS query type change on resolution timeout
- CLEANUP: proto_http: few corrections for gcc warnings.
- BUG/MINOR: DNS: resolution structure change
- BUG/MINOR : allow to log cookie for tarpit and denied request
- BUG/MEDIUM: ssl: rewind the BIO when reading certificates
- OPTIM/MINOR: session: abort if possible before connecting to the backend
- DOC: http: rename the unique-id sample and add the documentation
- BUG/MEDIUM: trace.c: rdtsc() is defined in two files
- BUG/MEDIUM: channel: fix miscalculation of available buffer space (2nd try)
- BUG/MINOR: server: risk of over reading the pref_net array.
- BUG/MINOR: cfgparse: couple of small memory leaks.
- BUG/MEDIUM: sample: initialize the pointer before parse_binary call.
- DOC: fix discrepancy in the example for http-request redirect
- MINOR: acl: Add predefined METH_DELETE, METH_PUT
- CLEANUP: .gitignore cleanup
- DOC: Clarify IPv4 address / mask notation rules
- CLEANUP: fix inconsistency between fd->iocb, proto->accept and accept()
- BUG/MEDIUM: fix maxaccept computation on per-process listeners
- BUG/MINOR: listener: stop unbound listeners on startup
- BUG/MINOR: fix maxaccept computation according to the frontend process range
- TESTS: add blocksig.c to run tests with all signals blocked
- MEDIUM: unblock signals on startup.
- MINOR: filters: Print the list of existing filters during HA startup
- MINOR: filters: Typo in an error message
- MINOR: filters: Filters must define the callbacks struct during config parsing
- DOC: filters: Add filters documentation
- BUG/MEDIUM: channel: don't allow to overwrite the reserve until connected
- BUG/MEDIUM: channel: incorrect polling condition may delay event delivery
- BUG/MEDIUM: channel: fix miscalculation of available buffer space (3rd try)
- BUG/MEDIUM: log: fix risk of segfault when logging HTTP fields in TCP mode
- MINOR: Add ability for agent-check to set server maxconn
- CLEANUP: Use server_parse_maxconn_change_request for maxconn CLI updates
- MINOR: filters: add opaque data
- BUG/MEDIUM: lua: protects the upper boundary of the argument list for converters/fetches.
- MINOR: lua: migrate the argument mask to 64 bits type.
- BUG/MINOR: dumpstats: Fix the "Total bytes saved" counter in backends stats
- BUG/MINOR: log: fix a typo that would cause %HP to log <BADREQ>
- BUG/MEDIUM: http: fix incorrect reporting of server errors
- MINOR: channel: add new function channel_congested()
- BUG/MEDIUM: http: fix risk of CPU spikes with pipelined requests from dead client
- BUG/MAJOR: channel: fix miscalculation of available buffer space (4th try)
- BUG/MEDIUM: stream: ensure the SI_FL_DONT_WAKE flag is properly cleared
- BUG/MEDIUM: channel: fix inconsistent handling of 4GB-1 transfers
- BUG/MEDIUM: stats: show servers state may show an empty or incomplete result
- BUG/MEDIUM: stats: show backend may show an empty or incomplete result
- MINOR: stats: fix typo in help messages
- MINOR: stats: show stat resolvers missing in the help message
- BUG/MINOR: dns: fix DNS header definition
- BUG/MEDIUM: dns: fix alignment issue when building DNS queries
- CLEANUP: don't ignore scripts in .gitignore
- BUILD: add a few release and backport scripts in scripts/
This is very useful in complex architecture systems where HAproxy
is balancing DB connections for example. We want to keep the maxconn
high in order to avoid issues with queueing on the LB level when
there is slowness on another part of the system. Example is a case of
an architecture where each thread opens multiple DB connections, which
if get stuck in queue cause a snowball effect (old connections aren't
closed, new ones cannot be established). These connections are mostly
idle and the DB server has no problem handling thousands of them.
Allowing us to dynamically set maxconn depending on the backend usage
(LA, CPU, memory, etc.) enables us to have high maxconn for situations
like above, but lowering it in case there are real issues where the
backend servers become overloaded (cache issues, DB gets hit hard).
The configuration documention has been updated. Doc about the filter line has
been added and a new chapter (. 9) has been created to list and document
supported filters (for now, flt_trace and flt_http_comp).
The developer documentation about filters has also been added. The is a "pre"
version. Incoming changes in the filter API will require an update.
This documentation requires a deeper review and some TODO need to be complete.
Adds some examples regarding shorthand IPv4 address notation which might
be confused with RFC 4632 CIDR notation, leading to different than
expected results.
Commit c8f0e78 ("DOC: typo: req.uri is now replaced by capture.req.uri")
fixed a discrepancy in the doc but the scheme is still missing, resulting
in a redirect loop. Let's fix this as well. This should be backported to
1.5.
It worth mentionning "timeout http-request" in the "timeout client"
documentation paragraph, to ensure nobody misses this important setting.
backport: 1.5 and above
Adds a little more clarity to the description of the maximum sizes of
the different variable scopes and adds a note about what happens when
the space allocated for variables is too small.
Also fixes some typos and grammar/spelling issues re/ variables and
their naming conventions, copied throughout the document.
