nginx -s reload terminates connections

[rlx01]

Hi Maxim,

Thank you for the link to the ticket.

IMHO this "during configuration reload existing connections are closed as
soon as they are idle" is kind of misleading as the connection is not idle
since it's being slammed with requests, it's "idle" in the sense that nginx
processed the last request that was in the "queue" for that keepalive
connection.

As this keeps being reported, maybe it would be useful (?) if there was an
option to "drain" keepalive connections (with a hard time limit) before
terminating them.

Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,275328,275369#msg-275369