On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:06:15AM +0100, Per Buer wrote: > > > > > > @per, you suggested saint mode. Why? What would it do better than > Tobias' > > > solution? > > > > Saint mode works if you have two backends in the same director. Then it > > blacklists that object from that backend for a certain time. A restart > > would then direct the request to the other backend. > > > > Tobias solution is to have two backends. The other one is only used when > > the first one fails. > > > > Ideally we want both. Our two hosts in the director are fully > functional, but one of them might not have received a given file yet. So > we want to try the other backend in the director, not mark it as faulty > when it gets the 404. > I'm pretty sure you didn't read my reply properly. :-P Note that the blacklist is temporary. If you know that you spend up to five seconds updating your server you set it to 5s. -- <http://www.varnish-software.com/> *Per Buer* CTO | Varnish Software AS Phone: +47 958 39 117 | Skype: per.buer We Make Websites Fly! Winner of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award 2013
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