16 Oct
2009
16 Oct
'09
2:47 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:36, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> wrote:
[...] You might also look at "fixing" varnish: I don't know of any valid reason for it to be using the "half-open" connection model to test that an HTTP-based backend is "up"
Going out on a limb here, but I think Varnish might be trying to save on file-descriptors. It could be a while before a backend-server answers and Varnish could have a large number of fds open on any given time while talking to both clients and servers.