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edge

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I tried to set up slow start in my virtualserverroute defination but it seems the nginx does not respect it:

 upstreams: - name: my-service service: my-service port: 9000 keepalive: 64 connect-timeout: 10s read-timeout: 30s send-timeout: 30s next-upstream-tries: 1 fail-timeout: 15s max-fails: 1 lb-method: least_conn slow-start: 45s healthCheck: enable: true path: /alive port: 8558 interval: 5s passes: 1 fails: 3 mandatory: true 

I tried to use lb-method:round_robin and removed healthCheck and set mandatory to false, but it all did not work

claude said that:

The actual problem is that slow-start requires a server state transition (down→up), but new endpoints appear already "up". Whether the controller uses API calls or config reloads, the result is the same - no transition, no slow-start.

is that correct?