In message <4b44b968.6060...@taptu.com>, Paul Mansfield writes: >just some ideas for discussion... > >whilst varnish has been very good at alleviating load by virtue of its >forced caching feature, I was wondering whether it's be possible to have >one request be duplicated to multiple back-end servers and the first one >to reply is used and the others ignored.
Ouch. That one is not easy, we pretty much hardcoded that we would only fetch from one backend at a time for each session. Sounds sort of hackish though. Couldn't you solve this by aggressively probing your backends and let them go sick during GC ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-dev mailing list varnish-dev@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-dev