Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Ricardo Newbery
On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> Again, "static" content isn't only the stuff that is served from >> filesystems in the classic static web server scenario. There are >> plenty of >> "dyn

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, "static" content isn't only the stuff that is served from > filesystems in the classic static web server scenario. There are plenty of > "dynamic" applications that process content from database -- applying skin

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread DHF
Sascha Ottolski wrote: > Am Freitag 04 April 2008 18:11:23 schrieb Michael S. Fischer: > >> Ah, I see. >> >> The problem is that you're basically trying to compensate for a >> congenital defect in your design: the network storage (I assume NFS) >> backend. NFS read requests are not cacheable by

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Ricardo Newbery
On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> Well, first of all you're setting up a false dichotomy. Not >> everything >> fits neatly into your apparent definitions of dynamic versus >> static. Yo

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 04 April 2008 18:11:23 schrieb Michael S. Fischer: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you are right, _if_ the working set is small. in my case, we're > > talking 20+ mio. small images (5-50 KB each), 400+ GB in total > > size, and it's grow

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you are right, _if_ the working set is small. in my case, we're talking > 20+ mio. small images (5-50 KB each), 400+ GB in total size, and it's > growing every day. access is very random, but there still is a good > am

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 04 April 2008 11:50:51 schrieb Michael S. Fischer: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, first of all you're setting up a false dichotomy. Not > > everything fits neatly into your apparent definitions of dynamic > > versus static. Your

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, first of all you're setting up a false dichotomy. Not everything > fits neatly into your apparent definitions of dynamic versus static. Your > definitions appear to exclude the use case where you have cacheable c

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 04 April 2008 10:11:52 schrieb Stig Sandbeck Mathisen: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:01:57 +0200, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I definetely did nothing like this, I've observed restarts "out of > > the blue". I'm no giving the trunk a try, hopefully there's an > > improvement

unable to compile nagios module from trunk

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
after checking out and running autogen.sh, configure stops with this error: ./configure: line 19308: syntax error near unexpected token `VARNISHAPI,' ./configure: line 19308: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VARNISHAPI, varnishapi)' Cheers, Sascha ___ varnish-misc

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:01:57 +0200, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I definetely did nothing like this, I've observed restarts "out of > the blue". I'm no giving the trunk a try, hopefully there's an > improvement to that matter. If the varnish caching process dies for some reason, the

make varnish still respond if backend dead

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Hi, sorry if this is FAQ: what can I do to make varnish respond to request if it's backend is dead. should return cache hits, of course, and a "proxy error" or something for a miss. and how can I prevent varnish to cache "404" for objects it couldn't fetch due to a dead backend? at least I thi

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 04 April 2008 04:37:44 schrieb Ricardo Newbery: >           sub vcl_fetch { >               if (obj.ttl < 120s) { >                   set obj.ttl = 120s; >               } >           } > > Or you can invent your own header... let's call it  X-Varnish-1day > >           sub vcl_fetch { >

Re: cache empties itself?

2008-04-04 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 04 April 2008 01:32:28 schrieb DHF: > Sascha Ottolski wrote: > > however, my main problem is currently that the varnish childs keep > > restarting, and that this empties the cache, which effectively > > renders the whole setup useless for me :-( if the cache has filled > > up, it works g