Hi Per,

>> As soon as there are 500 concurrent requests, varnish kicks any additional 
>> requests to vcl_error and we send out a 5xx error for the requests. And 
>> varnishstats increments the backend_busy/"Backend conn. too many" counter. 
>> How do I get Varnish to queue up the requests instead, so that when a 
>> backend worker connection becomes available it gets sent to a backend?
> 
> Varnish, in it's current state doesn't do this, I'm afraid. Since Varnish 
> uses one thread, and thus has some overhead, for each connection it wouldn't 
> be ideal to have them idly wait. The current trunk code uses separate threads 
> to fetch content from the backend so having some sort of queue there 
> shouldn't be to hard. I don't know of any plans to implement this, however. 

Thanks for the reply. If I were to implement this and submit it, would Varnish 
be willing to accept the patch into the mainline? And, presumably an 
implementation would want two config variables: the max number of requests to 
allow on the queue and the max time allowed on queue until vcl_error is 
triggered?

Best,
Jeff


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