[Varnish] #1105: varnish cache server
Varnish
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Sun Mar 11 21:06:00 CET 2012
#1105: varnish cache server
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Reporter: varnish cache server | Type: task
Status: new | Priority: lowest
Milestone: Later | Component: build
Version: trunk | Severity: trivial
Keywords: |
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Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web
sites. '''[http://www.adminspoint.com/web-servers/1551-what-varnish-cache-
server.html varnish cache server]''' In contrast to other HTTP
accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or
Apache and nginx, which are primarily origin servers, Varnish was designed
from the ground up as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively
on HTTP, unlike other proxy servers that often support FTP, SMTP and other
network protocols.
While Varnish is designed to reduce contention between threads to a
minimum, its authors claim that its performance will only be as good as
that of the system's pthreads implementation.
Additionally, a poor malloc implementation may add unnecessary contention
and thereby limit performance.
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Ticket URL: <https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1105>
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