Theoretical connections/second limit using Varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <49F87DE4.3040300 at loman.net>, Nick Loman writes:

>Has Varnish got a solution to this problem which does not involve 
>time-wait recycling? One thing I've thought of is perhaps SO_REUSEADDR 
>is used or could be used when Varnish makes connections to the backend?

Varnish tries as hard as reasonable to reuse backend connections,
so you should be able to get multiple requests per backend connection.

If this is not the case for you, you should find out why backend connections
are not reused.

Poul-Henning

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