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Willy Tarreau e1738b665d MINOR: debug: read all libs in memory when set-dumpable=libs
When "set-dumpable" is set to "libs", in addition to marking the process
dumpable, haproxy also reads the binary and shared objects into memory as
a tar archive in a page-aligned location so that these files are easily
extractable from a future core dump. The goal here is to always have
access to the exact same binary and libs as those which caused the core
to happen. It's indeed very frequent to miss some of these, or to get
mismatching files due to a local update that didn't experience a reload,
or to get those of a host system instead of the container.

The in-memory tar file presents everything under a directory called
"core-%d" where %d corresponds to the PID of the worker process. In
order to ease the finding of these data in the core dump, the memory
area is contiguous and surrounded by PROT_NONE pages so that it appears
in its own segment in the core file. The total size used by this is a
few tens of MB, which is not a problem on large systems.
2026-03-18 15:30:39 +01:00
.github CI: remove redundant "halog" compilation 2026-02-23 11:11:26 +01:00
addons MINOR: promex: export "haproxy_sticktable_local_updates" metric 2026-03-18 11:18:37 +01:00
admin BUG/MINOR: admin: haproxy-reload rename -vv long option 2026-03-08 01:37:56 +01:00
dev DEV: term-events: Fix hanshake events decoding 2026-02-18 09:44:15 +01:00
doc MINOR: debug: read all libs in memory when set-dumpable=libs 2026-03-18 15:30:39 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MINOR: debug: read all libs in memory when set-dumpable=libs 2026-03-18 15:30:39 +01:00
reg-tests MINOR: jwt: Manage ec certificates in jwt_decrypt_cert 2026-03-10 14:58:47 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: git-show-backports: add a restart-from-last option 2026-03-09 15:36:05 +01:00
src MINOR: debug: read all libs in memory when set-dumpable=libs 2026-03-18 15:30:39 +01:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev6 2026-03-05 15:55:28 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: fix range build without test command 2026-03-12 18:06:37 +01:00
README.md DOC: remove openssl no-deprecated CI image 2026-02-19 10:39:23 +01:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev6 2026-03-05 15:55:28 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev6 2026-03-05 15:55:28 +01:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.