Threads in 4.0

[Per Buer]

Hi,

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj at mutt.dk>wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:24:18PM +0100, James Harrison wrote:
> > >
> > Good to know. There's more than just that one bug, though - just had
> > an hourlong site outage due to varnish's child just up and dying and
> > not being restarted. Wouldn't know where to look for debug output -
> > restarted the parent and it worked again for about 3 minutes and then
> > the child didn't die but it did stop servicing requests. New requests
> > would be accepted, and held open, but nothing happened subsequently.
> >
> > Just downgraded to 3.0 and everything's working again. Persistent
> > storage is a nice-to-have to avoid cold caches after restarts/crashes,
> > but 4.0 clearly needs some work before it goes anywhere near production.
>
> It sounds like you've upgraded to get persistent? Persistent is still
> experimental, just as it was in 3.0.
>

Experimental is misleading, it makes it sound like the code has a future. I
think the persistence code is still there because nobody has bothered
disabling it yet.

There is no work being done on the persistent. I doubt someone will pick it
up.

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