Dynamically Extend Grace Period

[Per Buer]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Vince <cooltechemail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wondering if I can dynamically extend grace period. For example,
> currently I have beresp.grace = 10m. If something bad happens to the backend
> and it needs more than 10 minutes to recover, 10m grace period is not
> enough. Is there anyway to dynamically increase the grace period, say 2
> hours, so varnish can continue to serve old content until the backend is
> available again.

Sort of. You could set the grace period to, say 2 hours, on the beresp
object and then set the req.grace period to 10min. Then, when
something bad hits the fan you increase the grace period in vcl_recv.


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