On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should add a qualifier to my vote, that stale-while-revalidate > > generally is used to mask suboptimal backend performance and so I > > discourage it in favor of fixing the backend. > > Of course the main premise of a reverse-proxy cache is to mask suboptimal > backend performance. :-)
Except, in this case, you are presumably already relieving your backend of a significant burden with your cache. if your backend is *still* unable to process requests to fulfill a request from the caching layer within a reasonable time, you're in serious trouble indeed. --Michael _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
