Re: [PATCH proxmox-backup 1/2] fix #6373: HTTP level reader heartbeat for proxy connection keepalive

["Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>]

On April 15, 2026 10:45 am, Christian Ebner wrote:
> On 4/15/26 10:32 AM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
>> On January 29, 2026 1:26 pm, Christian Ebner wrote:
>>> Backup readers can have long periods of idle connections, e.g. if a
>>> backup snapshot has been mounted and all relevant chunks are locally
>>> cached or a backup session with previous metadata archive not needing
>>> to fetch new contents while the backup is ongoing.
>>>
>>> Proxies like e.g. HAProxy might however close idle connections for
>>> better resource handling [0,1], even multiplexed HTTP/2 connections as
>>> are being used for the Proxmox Backup Sever backup/reader protocol.
>>>
>>> This mainly affects the backup reader, while the backup writer will
>>> do indexing and chunk uploads anyways.
>> 
>> but if the storage is slow, there might not be chunk traffic for a few
>> seconds as well?
> So you suggest to implement the same for the backup writer as well?

I am wondering whether it wouldn't make sense (though I guess 5s is
quite agressive anyway, and higher idle timeouts make it unlikely to
trigger in practice?)