Fixing cpu hog with all upstream servers marked "down". The following configuration causes nginx to hog cpu due to infinite loop in ngx_http_upstream_get_peer(): upstream backend { server 127.0.0.1:8080 down; server 127.0.0.1:8080 down; } server { ... location / { proxy_pass http://backend; } } Make sure we don't loop infinitely in ngx_http_upstream_get_peer() but stop after resetting peer weights once. Return 0 if we are stuck. This is guaranteed to work as peer 0 always exists, and eventually ngx_http_upstream_get_round_robin_peer() will do the right thing falling back to backup servers or returning NGX_BUSY.

/*
 * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
 */


#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>


ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize;
ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize_shift;
ngx_uint_t  ngx_cacheline_size;


void *ngx_alloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log)
{
    void  *p;

    p = malloc(size);
    if (p == NULL) {
        ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, log, ngx_errno,
                      "malloc(%uz) failed", size);
    }

    ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_ALLOC, log, 0, "malloc: %p:%uz", p, size);

    return p;
}


void *ngx_calloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log)
{
    void  *p;

    p = ngx_alloc(size, log);

    if (p) {
        ngx_memzero(p, size);
    }

    return p;
}