Connection churn issue

Help!
1

I am facing connection churn issue when I am using keep-alive and http-tunnel introduces un-even load balancing at the backend.

Should I use below -

option http-keep-alive
optiuon http-server-close
http-reuse always

2

You have to provide more details for us to be able to give you a recommendation. Start with providing the rest of your configuration, especially related to load-balancing.

3

Here is my current setup

global
log /dev/log local0
log /dev/log local1 notice
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
stats socket /var/run/haproxy.sock mode 600 level admin
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
maxconn 20000

defaults
log global
mode http
retries 3

option http-keep-alive

option httplog

option dontlognull

option http-tunnel
option  redispatch
    option  forwardfor
option httpclose
    timeout  connect 10000
    timeout  client  10000
    timeout  server  10000
    errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http
    errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http
    errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http
    errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http
    errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http
    errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http
    errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http

#------------------

internal statistics

#------------------
listen stats
bind XXXXXXXXXXXX:9999
mode http
stats enable
stats uri /haproxy?stats
#------------------

frontend instances

#------------------
frontend test_ha
bind XXXXXXXXXXXX:8090
default_backend test_back

#------------------

backend instances

#------------------
backend test_back
balance roundrobin
option http-keep-alive
#option http-tunnel
http-reuse always

option allbackups

option tcp-smart-connect

option prefer-last-server
server test1 XXXXXXXXXXXX:80 check port 80
server test2 XXXXXXXXXXXX.:80 check port 80
server test3 XXXXXXXXXXXX:80 check port 80 
server test4 XXXXXXXXXXXX:80 check port 80

Our requirement is to achieve even load balancing with a minimal number of RST at the backend. we are able to achieve it with http-tunnel option but that doesn’t honor load balancing when traffic is very high.

4

Then you cannot use roundrobin. Replace balance roundrobin with balance leastconn and if that is not enough, remove option prefer-last-server.

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