On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:53 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:04:25PM +1000, Chris Herrmann wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i've been playing with an NVA setup for some lamp sites (Joomla) and the > > scaling is looking pretty amazing... still early days but initial results > > look very promising. > > > > anyway, it got me thinking to whether varnish would work with RT. I'm > > familiar enough with it to understand the generic accelerator principle > ... > > but I don't see how it would work with generated content - because of RT > > handles sessions / authentication / etc. Or is it smart enough to know > that > > if I visit the same ticket twice in a row and the ticket hasn't changed, > to > > give me cached content? > > > > I've tried searching for "perl varnish" and "request tracker varnish" > type > > pages but have only found one archive thread > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/72455 which appears > > inconclusive - does it actually make a noticeable difference or not? > > Internally we're using a squid proxy, and we have a small number of > users, > > so not sure that the static page elements being handled by varnish or > nginx > > would offer a huge advantage? anyway keen to hear people's experiences or > > other thoughts on accelerating RT... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > Hi Chris, > > We have tried nginx/fastCGI both with and without nginx caching the static > content. The biggest win was just moving from Apache/mod_perl to the nginx/ > fastCGI. It made RT much more scalable and allowed us to manage its > resource > allocation better. I do not think that varnish would do anything except add > complexity to the setup. >
care to share your nginx/fascgi config ? I am seeing one in the http://bestpractical.com/docs/rt/latest/web_deployment.html#nginx as a start. > Regards, > Ken > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
