Varnish timeout after 10 minutes

[Rogério Schneider]

> I deployed varnish on a webserver that also runs PHP to serve larger
> files of up to about 1GB. NOTE, I am using the stock varnish shipped
> with Debian 5, which is varnish version 1.1.2.

We (everyone agrees, right?) recommend using a newer one :)

> Is there a time limit like this in newer versions of varnish? Is there
> a workaround I can use? It seems "pass"ing these requests doesn't
> help, but "pipe"ing them appears to help. Is there a better solution
> than hardcoding "pipe"s of all requests that could take more than 10
> minutes?

Take a look at the startup option: "send_timeout"

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/browser/tags/varnish-1.1.2/bin/varnishd/mgt_param.c

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Rogério Schneider

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