Re: Keep-Alive acceleration, is this possible?

2008-09-25 Thread Nick Loman
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> I was thinking it might be possible to strip out the "Connection: Close" >> header returned by Apache, [...] > > You don't need to do anything. > > "Connection:" is a hop-by-hop header, so Varnish already deletes it before > sending the reply to the client Perfect!

Re: Keep-Alive acceleration, is this possible?

2008-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Loman writes: >I am looking at Varnish as a web accelerator (it looks great!), and I >wonder if it is possible to get the best of both worlds, i.e. the user >still gets KeepAlive support, but the backends server one script per >connection. That will work.

Keep-Alive acceleration, is this possible?

2008-09-25 Thread Nick Loman
Hi there, On our platform we have had to disable Keep-Alive support on our Apache/FastCGI/PHP setup because it holds open too many backend processes under load even with KeepAliveTimeout set low. I am looking at Varnish as a web accelerator (it looks great!), and I wonder if it is possible to