Varnish 3.0: Please help test.

[Audun Ytterdal]

And a screenshot of varnishstat and varnishhist

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/866639/varnish-3.0-comp.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/866639/varnishhist-3.0-comp.png

Varnishist seems to indicate that it's a bit slower (The violet
terminal is the 3.0-beta1)

It also seems like it does not write it's fqdn in the top right corner
anymore ;-)

Den 30. mai 2011 kl. 13:03 skrev Audun Ytterdal <Audun.Ytterdal at vg.no>:

> Ok. I've been running 3.0-beta1 over the weekend on one of our 4 main
> varnishes.
> 
> The following (ugly and very long) url compares a 2.1 against the new
> 3.0 , seems to be behaving almost identical on moderate traffic
> 
> http://munin.vgnett.no/naveed/#::int.vgnett.no::batista.int.vgnett.no:quinn.int.vgnett.no::acpi:bonding_err_bond0:cpu:df:df_inode:diskstats_iops:diskstats_latency:diskstats_throughput:diskstats_utilization:entropy:forks:fw_packets:http_loadtime:if_bond0:if_err_bond0:if_err_eth0:if_err_eth1:if_eth0:if_eth1:interrupts:iostat:iostat_ios:irqstats:load:memory:netstat:ntp_kernel_err:ntp_kernel_pll_freq:ntp_kernel_pll_off:ntp_offset:open_files:open_inodes:postfix_mailqueue:postfix_mailvolume:proc_pri:processes:sendmail_mailqueue:sendmail_mailstats:sendmail_mailtraffic:swap:threads:uptime:users:varnish_backend_traffic:varnish_expunge:varnish_hit_rate:varnish_memory_usage:varnish_objects:varnish_request_rate:varnish_threads:varnish_transfer_rates:varnish_uptime:vmstat:yum
> 
> 
> Quinn has 3.0 batista has 2.1.5
> 
> Did the following changes to the vcl:
> 
> in vcl_fetch:
> 
> esi; -> set beresp.do_esi = true;
> 
> return(pass); -> return(hit_for_pass);
> 
> in vcl_hash
> 
> set req.hash += req.http.hash-input; -> hash_data(req.http.hash-input);
> 
> in vcl_error
> 
> explicit add + to concatinate strings
> 
> I find it a bit confusing that esi goes from a functional way of calling
> it to a "setting variable/paramter"-way while req.hash goes in the
> opposite direction from variable to functional way of calling it. Any
> clearifying thoughts about that?
> 
> On 2011-05-18 22:19, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It's me, your Varnish software developer, got a minute ?
>> 
>> Cool, I'll make it really brief:
>> 
>> As you may, or may not, have noticed, we have pushed out a Varnish
>> 3.0 Beta1 release:
>> 
>>        http://www.varnish-cache.org/releases/varnish-cache-3.0-beta1
>> 
>> The major news are two features:
>> 
>>        GZIP/GUNZIP support, with or without ESI.
>> 
>>        Streaming PASS and FETCH support.
>> 
>> I have also added, undoubtedly, some bugs, and this is where you
>> come into the picture:
>> 
>> My website gets 75 hits an hour, but I am pretty sure you have a
>> website that takes more traffic than that, why else would you be
>> on the Varnish announce mailing list ?
>> 
>> So if you could find a couple of hours to test out Varnish 3.0 and
>> report back to me how it goes, I would really appreciate it.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Poul-Henning
>> 
>> --
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> 
> 
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