Possible memory leak?

[Reinis Rozitis]

> My question still stands though, is there a way to solve that particular issue? It is
> causing us problems when the ram that Nginx is using doubles.

Theoretically if that’s a problem you could instead of a reload send USR2 and QUIT to the nginx process (http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html) which should spawn a new master and the gracefully quit the old one.

Correct me if I'm wrong (actually haven't tested for memory usage).

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