# Multiple processes after restarting/reloading HAproxy?

**URL:** <https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-processes-after-restarting-reloading-haproxy/568>\
**Category:** Help!\
**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-processes-after-restarting-reloading-haproxy/568 "2016-08-16T05:17:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mwp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mwp](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/mwp)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-processes-after-restarting-reloading-haproxy/568/1 "2016-08-16T05:17:20Z")

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Hi folks,

After restarting/reloading HAproxy a few times on Xenial, with HAproxy installed from the vbernat/haproxy-1.6 PPA, I see this situation occurring:

```
 4466 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/haproxy-systemd-wrapper -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid
 4104 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 4478
 4113 ? Ss 4:50 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 4478
22957 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 4113
22967 ? Ss 4:29 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 4113
14006 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 27306
14015 ? Ss 4:02 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 27306
 5571 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 19424
 5581 ? Ss 3:10 | \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 19424
28803 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 10290
28814 ? Ss 2:16 \_ /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -Ds -sf 10290

```

A `systemctl stop haproxy` hangs and I have to `kill -9` (or reboot the server) to get it back into a clean state. I didn’t make any changes to the service unit files or install any overrides. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Mike