Magnus Hagander: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Lasse Karstensen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Attached is a small patch set that implement soft purge support >> for Varnish trunk. [..] >> The main use case for soft purges are big Varnish setups with many >> backends and automated purging systems. When doing maintenance on one of >> the backends, you end up with automatically purging something that can't be >> recreated right now and Varnish starts sending 503 replies. >> With softpurge the grace handling will kick in and serve a stale object >> instead. > Is there anything about this that actually becomes different in the > "with many backends" scenario? I've been looking forward to this > feature for many usecases with a single backend - when that backend is > slow or unreliable. I don't see why the number of backends would make > any difference, but am I missing something about the implementation? > (Automated purging is exactly the usecase for me though)
No, there is nothing in there that is specific to how many backends you have. I was just trying to set the stage a bit, since it might not be entirely obvious when you need this. -- Lasse Karstensen Varnish Software AS http://www.varnish-software.com/ _______________________________________________ varnish-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-dev
