The following is a patch I've made to varnish that I hope improves the random director: which anyone's welcome to use (even varnish trunk?). My motivation was to reduce the number of vcl_error calls when a director is mostly good. You can get the entire patch at this link.
http://github.com/cep21/Varnish/commit/6f5e98143ac2636504d9febf574b14c3c1a072fc Here's the commit message: Random director tries all backends before giving up Summary: The current random director gives up when it can't get a FD to the backend it wants retries times in a row. Rather than give up and return NULL, which is guaranteed to cause a vcl_error, as a last ditch effort we try all other healthy backends until we get one that works. This is mostly useful in the between time after a backend server dies and before the health check fails enough to mark a backend unhealthy. Backwards Compatibility = Not strictly backwards compatible. In cases when the old code would of fallen through to vcl_error this will give a shot at getting a good result. Performance = In the worse case, this will add extra calls for getting a FD, but only for situations that vcl_error Test Plan: New varnish unittest. It fails in the old code and works in this new code.
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