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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sébastien,</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Is it possible that messages go to
      another log file? These messages go to the main error log file,
      defined in the root context.</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Another common pitfall is a log level
      above notice. Try setting error log to a more verbose one, maybe?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Regards,<br>
      Igor.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/03/2024 18:27, Sébastien Rebecchi
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Hi Igor,
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        <div dir="auto">Thanks for the answer.</div>
        <div dir="auto"><br>
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        <div dir="auto">I really got that message 'signal process
          started' every time i do 'nginx -s reload' and this is the
          only log line I have, I don't have the other lines you
          mentioned. Is there anything to do to enable those logs?</div>
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        Sébastien<br>
        <br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 28 mars 2024, 16:40,
            Igor Ippolitov <<a href="mailto:iippolitov@nginx.com"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">iippolitov@nginx.com</a>>
            a écrit :<br>
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              <div>Sébastien,</div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>The message about the signal process is only the
                beginning of the process.</div>
              <div>You are interested in messages like the following:<br>
                <br>
                <span style="font-family:monospace">
                  <blockquote type="cite"><span
                      style="font-family:monospace"><span
                        style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff">2024/03/26
                        13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: signal 1 (SIGHUP)
                        received from 69064, reconfiguring </span><br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723:
                      reconfiguring <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: using the
                      "epoll" event method <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: start worker
                      processes <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: start worker
                      process 69065 <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: start worker
                      process 69066 <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 723#723: start cache
                      manager process 69067 <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61903#61903:
                      gracefully shutting down <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61905#61905: exiting
                      <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61903#61903: exiting
                      <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61904#61904:
                      gracefully shutting down <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61904#61904: exiting
                      <br>
                      2024/03/26 13:36:36 [notice] 61903#61903: exit</span></blockquote>
                  <br>
                </span></div>
              <div>Note the 'gracefully shutting down' and 'exiting'
                message from workers. Also the 'start' and
                'reconfiguring' messages from the master process.</div>
              <div>There should be a similar sequence somewhere in your
                logs.</div>
              <div>Having these logs may help explaining what happens on
                a reload.<br>
              </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>Kind regards,</div>
              <div>Igor.<br>
              </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>On 26/03/2024 12:41, Sébastien Rebecchi wrote:<br>
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                <div dir="ltr">Hi Igor
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                  <div>There is no special logs on the IP_1 (the
                    reloaded one) side, only 1 log line, which is
                    expected:</div>
                  <div>--- BEGIN ---<br>
                  </div>
                  <div>2024/03/26 13:37:55 [notice] 3928855#0: signal
                    process started<br>
                  </div>
                  <div>--- END ---<br>
                  </div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>I did not configure worker_shutdown_timeout, it
                    is unlimited.</div>
                  <div><br>
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                  <div>Sébastien.</div>
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 25 mars 2024
                    à 17:59, Igor Ippolitov <<a
                      href="mailto:iippolitov@nginx.com" target="_blank"
                      rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">iippolitov@nginx.com</a>>
                    a écrit :<br>
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                      <div>Sébastien,</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>Nginx should keep active connections open and
                        wait for a request to complete before closing.<br>
                      </div>
                      <div>A reload starts a new set of workers while
                        old workers wait for old connections to shut
                        down.</div>
                      <div>The only exception I'm aware of is having
                        worker_shutdown_timeout configured: in this case
                        a worker will wait till this timeout and
                        forcibly close a connection. Be default there is
                        no timeout.<br>
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                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>It would be curious to see error log of nginx
                        at IP_1 (the reloaded one) while the reload
                        happens. It may explain the reason for
                        connection resets.<br>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>Kind regards,</div>
                      <div>Igor.<br>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>On 25/03/2024 12:31, Sébastien Rebecchi
                        wrote:<br>
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                              <p style="margin:0px">Hello</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">I have an issue with
                                <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                closing prematurely connections when
                                reload is performed.</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">I have some <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                servers configured to proxy_pass
                                requests to an upstream group. This
                                group itself is composed of several
                                servers which are <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                themselves, and is configured to use <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">keepalive</span>
                                connections.</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">When I trigger a
                                reload (-s reload) on an <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                of one of the servers which is target of
                                the upstream, I see in error logs of all
                                servers in front that connection was
                                reset by the <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                which was reloaded.</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">Here configuration
                                of upstream group (IPs are hidden
                                replaced by IP_X):</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- BEGIN ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">upstream data_api {</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> random;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_1:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_2:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_3:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_4:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_5:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_6:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_7:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_8:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_9:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> server IP_10:80
                                max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">keepalive</span>
                                20;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">}</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- END ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">Here configuration
                                of the location using this upstream:</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- BEGIN ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">location / {</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_pass <a
                                  href="http://data_api" target="_blank"
                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://data_api</a>;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_http_version
                                1.1;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_set_header
                                Connection "";</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_set_header
                                Host $host;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_set_header
                                X-Real-IP $real_ip;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_set_header
                                X-Forwarded-For
                                $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">
                                proxy_connect_timeout 2s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_send_timeout
                                6s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_read_timeout
                                10s;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"> proxy_next_upstream
                                error timeout <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">http</span>_502
                                <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">http</span>_504;</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">}</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- END ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">And here the kind of
                                error messages I get when I reload <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                of "IP_1":</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- BEGIN ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">2024/03/25 11:24:25
                                [error] 3758170#0: *1795895162 <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">recv</span>()
                                failed (104: Connection reset by peer)
                                while reading response header from
                                upstream, client: CLIENT_IP_HIDDEN,
                                server: SERVER_HIDDEN, request: "POST
                                /REQUEST_LOCATION_HIDDEN HTTP/2.0",
                                upstream: "<a
href="http://IP_1:80/REQUEST_LOCATION_HIDDEN" target="_blank"
                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://IP_1:80/REQUEST_LOCATION_HIDDEN</a>",
                                host: "HOST_HIDDEN", referrer:
                                "REFERRER_HIDDEN"</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">--- END ---</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">I thought -s reload
                                was doing graceful shutdown of
                                connections. Is it due to the fact that
                                <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                can not handle that when using <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">keepalive</span>
                                connections? Is it a bug?</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">I am using <span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">nginx</span>
                                1.24.0 everywhere, no particular </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px">Thank you for any
                                help.</p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><br>
                              </p>
                              <p style="margin:0px"><span
style="text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:wavy;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,128,64)">Sébastien</span></p>
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