grace scenario - app side and varnish

[John Norman]

Thanks. An explicit statement of this in the docs would be helpful.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Tollef Fog Heen
<tfheen at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
> ]] John Norman
>
> | I would like to set "grace" in Varnish so that this stays in the cache
> | for some long amount of time, and then when I hit the site, I get
> | stale content (no wait), and the backend gets triggered to refresh the
> | cache.
>
> grace works by serving old content to any clients which would otherwise
> be put on a wait list.  It does not prefect or fetch asynchronously.  So
> with grace, the first client has to wait, and any subsequent ones just
> get the graced content.
>
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