Reducing backend connections

[Henrik Nordvik]

On a different but related note:
What would be best to use for long-polling connections?

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Henrik


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Rob S <rtshilston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For most sites, we use Varnish to do both caching and load balancing.
> >  However, for one or two, where it's not currently practical to cache, we
> > use it solely for load balancing etc.  What's the best way of using
> Varnish
> > so that the backends aren't kept holding the connections whilst the
> client
> > is patiently downloading?
>
> If you're sure you don't want _any_ caching (not even 1s); pass.
>
> However, if you're clients are downloading ISO images, the whole image
> must be fetched from the backend and stored before it is given to the
> client. In such conditions it makes sense to use pipe.
>
>
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