Hello!

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:37:15AM +0530, Vishwas Bm wrote:

> I see that from 1.19.10 keepalive_time has been added.
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#keepalive_time
>
> Also keepalive_timeout is present for idle connection
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#keepalive_timeout
>
> On checking the behaviour between these two, I see that keepalive_time is
> having higher precedence over keepalive_timeout.
> Even if connection is not idle based on keepqlive_timeout, connection is
> still getting closed because of keepalive_time.
>
> Is this expected behaviour?
> Also can I set keepalive_time to higher value say 24hours ? Any drawbacks
> with this ?
> Can this keepalive_time be disabled and priority given only to
> keepalive_timeout ?

The "keepalive_time" is a directive to limit total lifetime of the
connection, making it possible to free any resources associated
with the connection, notably allocated memory. Further, in some
setups it might be important to periodically redo connection
authentication, notably re-validate peer certificates.

The "keepalive_time" directive is mostly equivalent to
keepalive_requests, which is documented as follows:

: Closing connections periodically is necessary to free
: per-connection memory allocations. Therefore, using too high
: maximum number of requests could result in excessive memory usage
: and not recommended.

Note though that keepalive_time is 1 hour by default, and reopening
connections once per hour is not expected to have any performance
impact. Rather, it is expected to be a hard limit on the total
connection lifetime on connections which are mostly idle and
therefore do not reach the "keepalive_requests" limit in a
reasonable time.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/
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