Stuart, I think 60 minutes is too much time even for Varnish to wait. In default configuration Varnish would wait only for, if I remember, 60 seconds and then give up on that request.
This can be tuned with -p params, like "first_byte_timeout". You can read more here: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/browser/trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c Best Regards, On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:11 PM, stuart yeates <stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz>wrote: > Hello > > I'm looking to use varnish in front of an XSLT/PostgreSQL/Tomcat/Java > site and have a question about varnish's behaviour when a client drops a > connection. > > The problem is that there are a relatively small number of pages which > are _very_ slow to generate (>60 minutes) and a large number that are > relatively fast. Clients tend to abort the slow pages, so (using our > current reverse proxy) they never make it into the cache. > > Ideally I'd like to make varnish continue the request and cache the > result. Is that possible? > > Is there a way to make these slow-to-generate pages have a much longer > cache-time? > > cheers > stuart > > -- > Stuart Yeates > http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre > http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > varnish-m...@projects.linpro.no > http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > -- Rogério Schneider MSN: stoc...@hotmail.com GTalk: stoc...@gmail.com TerraVoip: stockrt Skype: stockrt http://stockrt.github.com
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