Varnish 2.01 - GETs with Grinder end up in PASS

Robert Ming romics22 at yahoo.de
Wed Nov 19 13:16:52 CET 2008


> Robert Ming wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > We do load-testing with 'The Grinder' vers.
> 3.1 on Varnish in front
> > of several Plone3 instances. The tests worked out fine
> with Varnish
> > 2.0 beta. Now with version 2.01 we have the following
> issue: 
> > Executing any GET with the Testing-Framework results
> always in a PASS
> > in Varnish. As a consequence all subsequent requests
> with the same
> > url end up in cache hits for pass, that's not what
> we like to test.
> > Requesting the same urls "manually", say
> with firefox or ie are first
> > LOOKUPed and afterwards cached, the behaviour we would
> like to test.
> > 
> > Trying different ways to get around this
> "PASSing"-issue we came to
> > the conclusion that it is not a grinder problem,
> because a simple GET
> > done with the python httplib.HTTPConnection had the
> same effect.
> > 
> > Any comments, solutions, enlightments on this issue
> are appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Post your vcl? Have you looked at the logs?
> 
> -- 
> jt at endpoint.com
> http://www.endpoint.com
> 
Finally the vcl and the log of a grinder test that executes two times the same request

-Robert


      
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