timeout problem with Play Framework

[Baldur Norddahl]

Hi,

Downgrading from Varnish 2.1.4 to 2.1.3 fixes the problem. Thanks for the
help.

I am not using Apache. It is just varnish in front of the play framework,
which has a build in webserver.

Regards,

Baldur

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, FabD [ML] <flylm.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/11/28 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com>:
> > Hello
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you use Varnish 2.1.4 with Apache2 ? I got the same issue with the
> Debian package of the Varnish repository.
>
> 3 possibilities  :
>
> - Compile by hand the 2.1 branch of the SVN
> - Use Varnish 2.1.3 and wait the next Varnish version.
> - Test with Apache2 KeepAlive Off and wait the next Varnish version.
>
> Fabien
>
> > I am using Varnish-cache in front of a website based on the Play
> Framework
> > (http://www.playframework.org/ - a java web framework). I started out
> with a
> > really simple varnish config file:
> > backend default {
> >     .host = "127.0.0.1";
> >     .port = "9010";
> > }
> > backend joytools {
> >         .host = "127.0.0.1";
> >         .port = "9020";
> > }
> > sub vcl_recv {
> >     if (req.http.host ~ "^(www.)?(joytools.dk|xn--bkkenbund-g3a.dk)$") {
> >         set req.backend = joytools;
> >     } else {
> >         set req.backend = default;
> >     }
> > }
> > The purpose is to sort out requests to a HTTP virtual host to one backend
> > server and all other requests to another. This works.
> > However, on the first request or when doing a "refresh" in a browser the
> > site becomes extremely slow and unresponsive. I did some work with
> tcpdump
> > to find out what is going on. I captured this:
> > --REQUEST--
> > GET /public/javascripts/jquery-1.4.2.min.js HTTP/1.1
> > Host: xn--bkkenbund-g3a.dk
> > Referer: http://xn--bkkenbund-g3a.dk/
> > If-Modified-Since: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:57:53 GMT
> > Accept: */*
> > If-None-Match: "1268301473000--44924593"
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7
> > (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
> > Accept-Language: da,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
> > Cookie: PLAY_FLASH=; PLAY_ERRORS=;
> >
> PLAY_SESSION=9df837ef975871bcd0e1fc61189dd457420accaf-%00___ID%3A327ad683-323e-4d25-a824-347ad85bc5df%00
> > X-Forwarded-For: 79.98.193.196
> > X-Varnish: 287151663
> > --REQUEST END--
> > --RESPONSE--
> > HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
> > Server: Play! Framework;1.1;dev
> > Cache-Control: no-cache
> > ETag: "1268301473000--44924593"
> > --RESPONSE END--
> > After this exchange between Play Framework and Varnish the connection is
> > idle for exactly 60 seconds before closing. It looks to me as if Play
> thinks
> > it is done replying but Varnish is expecting something more.
> > I hope an expert here can give me a quick pointer to how I proceed
> resolving
> > this issue.
> > Thanks,
> > Baldur
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> >
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