# HAProxy logs show excessive number incoming connections with limited number of clients connect to HAProxy

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**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-logs-show-excessive-number-incoming-connections-with-limited-number-of-clients-connect-to-haproxy/8069 "2022-10-31T14:00:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-logs-show-excessive-number-incoming-connections-with-limited-number-of-clients-connect-to-haproxy/8069/1 "2022-10-31T14:00:05Z")

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Hi Team,

We have a use case multiple clients connect to HAProxy where HAProxy acts as load balancer for back-end services.  
can anyone help to understand this issue. HAProxy log shows as below in different time frames :  
haproxy: incoming:::ffff:xx.xx.x.xx:port backend:processA connecting-server:default/127.0.0.1 connecting-through:127.0.0.1:random-port, wait-time:1 connect-time:0 total-incoming:693 total-outgoing:1 total-to-server:1

haproxy: incoming:::ffff:xx.xx.x.xx:port backend:processA connecting-server:default/127.0.0.1 connecting-through:127.0.0.1:random-port, wait-time:3 connect-time:0 total-incoming:1696 total-outgoing:1 total-to-server:1

In real set-up : there are only few clients connect to HAproxy, but there is a significant number shows as incoming count and there is a mismatch in count of incoming, total-outgoing and total-to-server , ideally they all should be same as actual client connections. Using HAProxy version 2.2.6.  
i was going through this [haproxy 2.0.5 : connections stuck in close\_wait state · Issue #233 · haproxy/haproxy · GitHub](https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/233), something similar and can someone help what might be going wrong with this

Thanks