In message <[email protected]>, Nick Loman writes: >I'm sure I could find a way of getting Apache to put in a 10msec >Keep-Alive timeout if that was necessary. > >Are you proposing that Varnish would then hold and re-use that backend >connection for a waiting request from a different user/TCP connection?
Varnish tries as hard as reasonable to reuse both client and backend connections. If your appache gives varnish just a short chance to do so, I am sure that you can eliminate 40-50% of your connections. >> If you run a tcpdump of the backend traffic, does the connections >> close properly with FIN or does one of the ends RST them ? OK, just making sure. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
