Putting the site in maintenance mode?

2009-04-30 Thread Lars Jørgensen
Hi, New to varnish so forgive me if this has been answered before. I tried searching but mainly got instructions on how to maintain a boat :-) I have defined a vcl_error stanza in my vcl that puts a sorry, we're currently maintaining the site sign up, when all backends are sick. I had a

Re: Putting the site in maintenance mode?

2009-04-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 60b9e91d-8d9d-4056-8cc9-1240d7f38...@gyldendal.dk, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? Lars_J=F8rgensen?= writes: Is there any way to put the whole site in maintenance mode in a nice = way? Like telling varnish don't serve any content, just the error = page? Varnish allows you to have multiple VCL

Re: Handling graced objects between varnish servers.

2009-04-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 6d6e4f5a-b9d6-41eb-9b08-27afec5d4...@funnyordie.com, Jeff Anderson writes: How long can I cache objects and keep them available as graced objects? As long as you want. If a front end varnish cache receives an object from a downstream varnish cache that was served as a graced

Re: Theoretical connections/second limit using Varnish

2009-04-30 Thread Nick Loman
Michael S. Fischer wrote: I've done that for a specific reason relating to backend PHP processes. I don't dispute your reasoning; my employer does this as well. KeepAlive with Apache/PHP can be a recipe for resource starvation on your origin servers. Hi Michael, Precisely, we only have