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r1643 - in trunk/varnish-doc/en: . inside-varnish
Author: des
Date: 2007-07-04 16:30:22 +0200 (Wed, 04 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 1643

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trunk/varnish-doc/en/inside-varnish/
trunk/varnish-doc/en/inside-varnish/article.xml
Log:
The beginnings of "Inside the Varnish HTTP accelerator"


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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="../../share/docbook-xml.css"?>
+<!DOCTYPE article
+ PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<article lang="en">
+ <articleinfo>
+ <releaseinfo role="cvs">$Id$</releaseinfo>
+ <title>Inside the Varnish HTTP Accelerator</title>
+ </articleinfo>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Repository organization</title>
+
+ <para>The Varnish SVN repository is organized as follows:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>branches</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Branches of the main source tree, mainly for release
+ engineering purposes.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>tags</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Static copies of past releases.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>trunk</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This is where active development takes place. Code
+ is merged from here to a branch prior to a release.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnish-cache</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Varnish itself, with its accompanying tools,
+ code libraries and man pages.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>bin</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Programs, including Varnish itself.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishadm</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A command-line interface to the
+ management port.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishd</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Varnish HTTP accelerator
+ itself.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishhist</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A tool that displays a histogram
+ of requests grouped by processing time,
+ using different symbols for hits and
+ misses.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishlog</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An all-purpose log-watching and
+ log-saving tool. Mostly used to store
+ log data for later processing by the
+ other log-watching tools.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishncsa</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A log-watching tool that displays
+ log data in the Apache / NCSA combined
+ log format, suitable for further
+ processing by standard log analysis
+ tools such as AWStats.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishreplay</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A tool that reads Varnish log data
+ and attempts to recreate the HTTP
+ traffic that resulted in said data;
+ useful for debugging and
+ benchmarking.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishstat</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A tool that displays statistics
+ from a running Varnish server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnishtop</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A tool that reads Varnish log data
+ and displays an ordered list of the most
+ frequently reoccurring log
+ entries.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>include</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Header files for the code libraries.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>compat</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Header files for <filename>libcompat</filename>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>lib</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Code libraries.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>libcompat</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Compatibility library which
+ implements a number of functions (such
+ as <function>strlcpy</function> and
+ <function>vasprintf</function>) which
+ are present on some but not all of the
+ platforms Varnish runs on.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>libvarnish</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Utility library which implements a
+ number of non-Varnish-specific functions
+ (including a CRC32 implementation and a
+ generic binary heap implementation)
+ which are used both by Varnish and some
+ of the accompanying tools.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>libvarnishapi</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Interface library, not used by
+ Varnish itself, but used by applications
+ which need to interface with
+ Varnish.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>libvcl</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>VCL to C translator.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>man</filename></term>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnish-doc</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Varnish documentation, except man pages,
+ which are kept alongside the source code.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>varnish-tools</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Various development and testing tools.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The accelerator</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Principles of operation</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Subsystems</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Data structures</title>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The log tailers</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishlog</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishncsa</title>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The statistics gatherers</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishstat</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishhist</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishtop</title>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The test framework</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Plugins</title>
+
+ <para>The <filename>trunk/varnish-tools</filename> directory in
+ the Varnish repository contains Varnish plugins for several
+ popular system monitoring and administration frameworks.</para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Munin</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Nagios</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Webmin</title>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Other tools</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishadm</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>varnishreplay</title>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>fetcher</title>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+</article>


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