[MEDIUM] Spread health checks even more
When one server appears at the same position in multiple backends, it
receives all the checks from all the backends exactly at the same time
because the health-checks are only spread within a backend but not
globally.
Attached patch implements per-server start delay in a different way.
Checks are now spread globally - not locally to one backend. It also makes
them start faster - IMHO there is no need to add a 'server->inter' when
calculating first execution. Calculation were moved from cfgparse.c to
checks.c. There is a new function start_checks() and now it is not called
when haproxy is started in MODE_CHECK.
With this patch it is also possible to set a global 'spread-checks'
parameter. It takes a percentage value (1..50, probably something near
5..10 is a good idea) so haproxy adds or removes that many percent to the
original interval after each check. My test shows that with 18 backends,
54 servers total and 10000ms/5% it takes about 45m to mix them completely.
I decided to use rand/srand pseudo-random number generator. I am aware it
is not recommend for a good randomness but a) we do not need a good random
generator here b) it is probably the most portable one.
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