Re: varnishd runtime parameters

2009-03-25 Thread Kristian Lyngstol
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:37:52AM -0700, Tung Nguyen wrote: > Im wondering how you are testing, Im using ab, apachebench, to see how > things behave with -c 10 -n 1000, on the varnished pages. I've got two ways of testing. One is with siege, typically run with siege -c200 -b. Siege, however, is a

Re: varnishd runtime parameters

2009-03-25 Thread Tung Nguyen
Hi guys, So sometimes are backend is really slow in returning a response. So slow that it looks like it is causing varnish to timeout before the backend does and so varnish seems to eventually give up and returns a 503. Ther are 4 curl requests * the first 2 timeout and give a 503 * the 3rd one

Re: varnishd runtime parameters

2009-03-25 Thread Tung Nguyen
Kristian, thank you. Im glad to hear that most defaults are good. Yup, the default thread_pool_min = 1 seems kinda funny. We'll set it to at least 100. I didnt even know about the cli_timeout and will set it to a base line of 10 seconds to test. Im wondering how you are testing, Im using ab, a

Re: varnishd runtime parameters

2009-03-24 Thread Kristian Lyngstol
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:58:58PM -0700, Tung Nguyen wrote: > Hi guys, > So, Im reading over an archive email thread about twitters configuration. > > http://projects.linpro.no/pipermail/varnish-dev/2009-February/000968.html > > It looks like they had to adjust a lot of parameters... and Im not

varnishd runtime parameters

2009-03-23 Thread Tung Nguyen
Hi guys, So, Im reading over an archive email thread about twitters configuration. http://projects.linpro.no/pipermail/varnish-dev/2009-February/000968.html It looks like they had to adjust a lot of parameters... and Im not finding all the parameters definitions in the varnishd man pages. Im won