Thanks Maxim for your answer,

If I remove the keep alive directive, all happens as expected. Apparently,
sending USR2 and WINCH solve the problem.

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Regards
Jocelyn


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 07:24:12PM -0400, Jocelyn Mocquant wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm dealing with a problem. When reloading the nginx configuration,
> > all keepalived connections receive the TCP reset flag after I send a
> > HUP signal to the master process. If I comment the line responsible for
> > enabling the keepalive feature in the configuration, the problem
> > disappear (nginx version is 0.9.7).
>
> On configuration reloading nginx starts new worker processes with
> new configuration and old worker processes are terminated as soon
> as they finish processing of requests. All keepalive connections
> in old workers are closed accordingly. HTTP/1.1 clients are
> required to handle keepalive connection close, so this shoudln't
> be a problem.
>
> It's not clear why you see RST instead of normal close with
> FIN/FIN+ACK/ACK (are you?), but this shouldn't the problem by
> itself anyway.
>
> Maxim Dounin
>
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