Understanding nukes & the expiration thread

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Feb 7 00:32:55 CET 2009


In message <53C652A09719C54DA24741D0157CB26902BD0B09 at TFPRDEXS1.tf1.groupetf1.fr
>, "BUSTARRET, Jean-francois" writes:
>
>If I understand correctly how varnish works :
>- the expiration thread (exp_timer) only checks the root of the binheap 
>(= the oldest object currently in cache)

Not the oldest object, the object closest to expiring.


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