Mailing List Archive: cachefile

cachefile

Apr 23, 2007, 8:17 AM

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>Every time I restart varnishd it needs to grab every
object again from
>the backend. Is this intentional because varnishd
does not like to
>save the objects to the disk?
>
>I know that varnish should not be restarted, but it
happens and then
>a nice built up cache is empty and needs to fill up
again.

Oh, what a shame... I had such high hopes for Varnish.
I am setting up a shiny new server (multi-cpu, FreeBSD
6.2) to run a busy Zope site that has so far cranked
out 300k+ pages currently residing in Squid's cache...

Yes, we give our Zope a workout and our quite
expensive pages basically don't expire. Squid has
performed very well, but Varnish promises so much
more!

For what it's worth, I cast my vote for persistent
storage in a future version!

Ken

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phk at phk

Apr 23, 2007, 8:26 AM

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In message <261901.43163.qm at web53302.mail.re2.yahoo.com>, Ken Ara writes:

>Oh, what a shame... I had such high hopes for Varnish.
>I am setting up a shiny new server (multi-cpu, FreeBSD
>6.2) to run a busy Zope site that has so far cranked
>out 300k+ pages currently residing in Squid's cache...
>
>Yes, we give our Zope a workout and our quite
>expensive pages basically don't expire. Squid has
>performed very well, but Varnish promises so much
>more!

I think you'll still find Varnish delivering much
more :-)

>For what it's worth, I cast my vote for persistent
>storage in a future version!

Noted.

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des at linpro

Apr 23, 2007, 11:40 PM

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Ken Ara <feedreader at yahoo.com> writes:
> Denis Ahrens <denis at zeno.org> writes:
> > Every time I restart varnishd it needs to grab every object again from
> > the backend. Is this intentional because varnishd does not like to
> > save the objects to the disk?
> Oh, what a shame... I had such high hopes for Varnish.

Give it a spin. I think you'll be surprised at how well it performs,
even without persistent caching.

DES
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