On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:59 PM Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > HAProxy 2.3.9 was released on 2021/03/30. It added 5 new commits > after version 2.3.8. > > This essentially fixes the rate counters issue that popped up in 2.3.8 > after the previous fix for the rate counters already. > > What happened is that the internal time in millisecond wraps every 49.7 > days and that the new global counter used to make sure rate counters are > now stable across threads starts at zero and is initialized when older > than the current thread's current date. It just happens that the wrapping > happened a few hours ago at "Mon Mar 29 23:59:46 CEST 2021" exactly and > that any process started since this date and for the next 24 days doesn't > validate this condition anymore, hence doesn't rotate its rate counters > anymore.
Thanks Willy for the quick update. That's a good example to avoid pushing stable versions at the same time, so we have opportunities to find those regressions. -- William

