[master] 7427be8 nicer definitions
Bjørn Ruberg
bjorn at varnish-cache.org
Thu Mar 3 09:20:53 CET 2011
commit 7427be86c924c82ab28c444e6706ed8db0e71e4e
Author: Bjoern Ruberg <bjorn at ruberg.no>
Date: Thu Mar 3 09:19:39 2011 +0100
nicer definitions
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/glossary/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/glossary/index.rst
index 70a40ed..94a104d 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/glossary/index.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/glossary/index.rst
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ Varnish Glossary
The worker process is started and configured by the master
process. This is the process that does all the work you actually
want varnish to do. If the worker dies, the master will try start
- it again, to keep your website alive..
+ it again, to keep your website alive.
backend
The HTTP server varnishd is caching for. This can be
any sort of device that handles HTTP requests, including, but
- not limited to: a webserver, a CMS, a load-balancer
+ not limited to: a webserver, a CMS, a load-balancer
another varnishd, etc.
client
@@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ Varnish Glossary
to varnishd they are just bytes.
object
- The (possibly cached version of a) response. Varnishd receives a reponse
- from the backend and creates an object, from which it may
- produce cached responses to clients.
+ The (possibly) cached version of a backend response. Varnishd
+ receives a reponse from the backend and creates an object,
+ from which it may produce cached responses to clients. If the
+ backend response is created from a request which is passed, it
+ will not be stored for caching.
.. comment: "configuration of varnishd -----------------------------"
@@ -98,8 +100,9 @@ Varnish Glossary
An object Varnish delivers from cache.
miss
- An object Varnish fetches from the backend. It may or may not
- be put in the cache, that depends.
+ An object Varnish fetches from the backend before it is served
+ to the client. The object may or may not be put in the cache,
+ that depends.
pass
An object Varnish does not try to cache, but simply fetches
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