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_SHMEM_H_INCLUDED_
#define _NGX_SHMEM_H_INCLUDED_


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


typedef struct {
    u_char      *addr;
    size_t       size;
    ngx_str_t    name;
    HANDLE       handle;
    ngx_log_t   *log;
    ngx_uint_t   exists;   /* unsigned  exists:1;  */
} ngx_shm_t;


ngx_int_t ngx_shm_alloc(ngx_shm_t *shm);
void ngx_shm_free(ngx_shm_t *shm);


#endif /* _NGX_SHMEM_H_INCLUDED_ */