[master] 81a0fec At VUG3 this parameter was discussed and the consensus was that 0.4 seconds was a bit too aggresive for a default value, and after some talk forth and back 0.7 seconds was deemed more like it.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

commit 81a0fec26d32a25a04f00cfa7a2d1d759eb8e407
Author: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 17 20:40:58 2011 +0000

    At VUG3 this parameter was discussed and the consensus was that 0.4
    seconds was a bit too aggresive for a default value, and after some
    talk forth and back 0.7 seconds was deemed more like it.

diff --git a/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c b/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c
index f15a5a2..7eb3234 100644
--- a/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c
+++ b/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ static const struct parspec input_parspec[] = {
 		"VCL can override this default value for each backend and "
 		"backend request.",
 		0,
-		"0.4", "s" },
+		"0.7", "s" },
 	{ "first_byte_timeout", tweak_timeout_double,
 		&master.first_byte_timeout,0, UINT_MAX,
 		"Default timeout for receiving first byte from backend. "