On Mar 20, 2014, at 12:28 , B.R. wrote:

> I am using the official Debian package (stable) and I noticed the service 
> file, in its do_stop() function, sends SIGTERM to the master process.
> 
> However, the docs say SIGTERM (and SIGQUIT) sent to the master process 
> provokes a 'fast shutdown' whereas SIGQUIT would provoke a 'graceful 
> shutdown'.
> 
> Why is not SIGQUIT being used? What is the difference between those 
> termination signals, speaking of nginx behavior?


Graceful shutdown means that nginx does not close active client connections. 
This may take hours.


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Igor Sysoev
http://nginx.com
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