[Varnish] #1305: Varnish:time_firstbyte and others are misleading
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Tue May 14 11:34:28 CEST 2013
#1305: Varnish:time_firstbyte and others are misleading
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Reporter: JonathanHuot | Type: documentation
Status: new | Priority: normal
Milestone: | Component: documentation
Version: trunk | Severity: minor
Keywords: |
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Timings in varnish are a bit misleading in documentation.
Since it's important when writing a lot of consuming VCL (e.g. using VMOD)
I would like to suggest this minor improvement :
Reading [https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/Varnishlog#ReqEnd], we
understand pretty well that the fifth number is ''from the start of the
request processing until we start delivering''.
Then, if we want to print this value in varnishncsa, [https://www.varnish-
cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/varnishncsa.html?highlight=Varnish:time_firstbyte]
reference a "firstbyte" ''Time to the first byte from the backend
arrived'' as the same value as fifth number of ReqEnd.
What I suggest, is replacing '''time_firstbyte''' by '''time_lastbyte'''
because we already read the full body from the backend (if streaming ==
no).
'''time_lastbyte''' is maybe not very meaningful, feel free to propose
other names, because I think this name is very important to be understood
by VMOD developers (and VCL writers).
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Ticket URL: <https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1305>
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