That worker states indicates that the old workers are still busy.

Signaling nginx for a reload (through 'reload' service command or sending
HUP to the master, which all does the latter), *graciously* shuts old
workers down, that means leaving them finishing what they are doing without
accepting new tasks.
You have resources to learn how to control nginx
http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html​
​.​


So: your workers are busy.
If you look at your network table, you will most probably find out that
those processes are attached to existing connections.

​You may want to dig on why those workers are busy and the reason for the
connections being held open (file transfer? connection​ timeout not
expired? request being processed?)
---
*B. R.*


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Harold.Miao <miaohonghit@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have any good suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Roman Arutyunyan <arutyunyan.roman@gmail.com>于2014年7月21日星期一写道：
>
>> Reload will not work properly with rtmp since rtmp connections are long
>> unlike http.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Harold.Miao <miaohonghit@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hi all
>>>
>>> I use a endless rtmp stream
>>>
>>> /usr/local/nginx/wsgi/ffmpeg -i haha.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 500k -c:a
>>> copy -f flv rtmp://172.16.205.50:1936/publish/you
>>>
>>> as you known, if I use nginx -s reload , then I got a lot of "nginx:
>>> worker process is shutting down"
>>>
>>> pplive 15355 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>> pplive 15356 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>> pplive 15357 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>> pplive 15358 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>> pplive 15359 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>> pplive 15360 13642 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 nginx: worker process is shutting down
>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>> because the connection will not quit, so "nginx: worker process is
>>> shutting down" more and more
>>>
>>> so How to aviod this status using "nginx -s reload"
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Harold Miao
>>>
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