On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Bendik Heltne <bhel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I must say that i am a bit confused. > I don't understand the need of routing requests to different varnish > servers based on hash algorithm. So I am wondering what kind of sites > are we talking about? > We're talking about sites that have a hot working set much larger than the amount of RAM you can fit in a single Varnish instance (i.e., 32-64GB). Our Varnish servers have ~ 120.000 - 150.000 objects cached in ~ 4GB > memory and the backends have a much easier life than before Varnish. > We are about to upgrade RAM on the Varnish boxes, and eventually we > can switch to disk cache if needed. If you receive more than 100 requests/sec per Varnish instance and you use a disk cache, you will die. --Michael
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