Problems with HttpServer not stopping on stop call

[MichaelTomlinsonTabmo]

Hello,

I have noticed an issue concerning proxygen's http server (v2019.05.13.00) while trying to stop it gracefully under fairly intense http requesting conditions. Indeed, the http server will not stop and stay blocked on the void HTTPServer::stop() call (blocks on the bootstrap.join() call in stop method).

It also seems like the stopping call completes if the work load briefly decreases or stops.

Have you encountered this issue before, and if so are there any workarounds ?

Thanks, Michael.

[lnicco]

Thanks for reporting this @MichaelTomlinsonTabmo . We have seen this issue before and we have a fix in the pipeline, but no ETA as of now. Let's keep this Issue open and track the progress here.

[MichaelTomlinsonTabmo]

Hi ! Any updates on this topic ?

[afrind]

I'm actually no longer able to reproduce the issue as described, but I'm not sure I like the new behavior. Once HTTPServer::stop is called, it will initiate drains on active connections (eg: HTTP/2 connections will send a GOAWAY, H1 will add Connection: close at next opportunity), but it will also forcibly drop open connections immediately after -- the server shuts down quickly.

What we'd like to see is a draining period that allows running work to finish up before dropping everything.