Trouble understanding why Varnish retries on backend timeouts

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Thanks for the explanation.

In regards to the race condition, would it make sense to be able to turn
off this functionality using some config parameter? I guess with the patch
applied, it shouldn't really be much of a problem as it will only occur for
GETs, but ideally, it would be nice to control this type of behavior.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <
tfheen at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> ]] .
>
> > I recently got bit by this functionality, and I was hoping that someone
> > could shed some light on why this is the default behavior for varnish.
>
> Because there's a race between when we submit a GET on a connection and
> when the backend closes it on us because of a timeout.
>
> > From everything I have read online,
> > the retry should only occur once, but I could have sworn I saw it
> > happen multiple times.
>
> If you restart in vcl_error, it can happen multiple times.
>
> > and even a patch (which doesn't seem to have been applied):
> >
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-dev/2011-August/006857.html
>
> We should probably apply this.  Martin, do you want to resubmit it
> (possibly after cleaning it up)?
>
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