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
 */


#ifndef _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_
#define _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_


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


void *ngx_alloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log);
void *ngx_calloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log);

#define ngx_free          free
#define ngx_memalign(alignment, size, log)  ngx_alloc(size, log)

extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize;
extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize_shift;
extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_cacheline_size;


#endif /* _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_ */