If you use the down parameter and restat nginx, all connections being served by the upstream server are dropped. So it appears that nginx cannot handle quiescing connections.by rob@hixfamily.org - Other discussion
It appears no one is checking these topics or I described it wrong. Does nginx support gradually bringing down an upstream server?by rob@hixfamily.org - Other discussion
When we want to take an upstream server down for maintenance, we need to do it gradually. Ideally, we would mark it down, and it would stop accepting new connections but would continue service active users (using ip_hash). We could then see when the upstream server is no longer serving requests and make changes to it before bringing it back up. If I mark an upstream server as down, reload thby rob@hixfamily.org - Other discussion