diff --git a/src/haproxy.c b/src/haproxy.c
index 81db3e0..129ff1d 100644
--- a/src/haproxy.c
+++ b/src/haproxy.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
 int stopping;	/* non zero means stopping in progress */
 int killed;	/* non zero means a hard-stop is triggered */
 int jobs = 0;   /* number of active jobs (conns, listeners, active tasks, ...) */
+int active_peers = 0; /* number of active peers (connection attempts and connected) */
 
 /* Here we store informations about the pids of the processes we may pause
  * or kill. We will send them a signal every 10 ms until we can bind to all