backend web node keep-alive option

[Guillaume Quintard]

Hi Leon,

Why not just up the timeout value? Usually, you want to keep the keep-alive
as it's much more efficient.

Cheers,

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Guillaume Quintard

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 9:48 PM, <info+varnish at shee.org> wrote:

> I was observing a behavior of a PHP script on one backend server that got
> executed/requested
> twice (but not by the client/browser).
>
> The plain script just processes data and only outputs a response until its
> done. The observed
> behavior is; when first_byte_timeout passes but the script is still
> processing data, the varnish
> node answers with an 503 and the script gets listed twice in the webserver
> process list. So, either
> it gets requested on this event again or the TCP connection close triggers
> an new execution. In any
> case its a bug and because of missing resources to dive into a more deeper
> analyses, I just disabled
> the enabled keep-alive option of the backend webserver (apache/httpd). The
> results: it helped to avoid
> a further execution of the script.
>
> The question is: What is the best practice to configure the backend
> webservers? Do you keep the
> keep-alive option enabled or not?
>
> I'd appreciate hearing your suggestions.
>
> Leon
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