On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, JimL wrote:


Hi Ric,


Ricardo Newbery-2 wrote:


Personally, I would examine response headers first before diving into
varnish stats and logs.  Both CacheFu and Varnish will add headers to
the response telling you what it's doing, whether it's getting the
content from cache or whether it's pulling it from the backend.  This
is usually all you need to know to diagnose 95% of cache issues.



Response headers are:

http://webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000/IBME/IBME

GET /IBME/IBME HTTP/1.1
Host: webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv: 1.9.0.6)
Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/ *;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000/IBME/IBME
Cookie: __utmz=####
If-None-Match: ||IBME-MainTheme|en-gb;en;q=0.5|1|6509||||343382

HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Server: Zope/(Zope 2.10.7-final, python 2.4.5, linux2) ZServer/1.1
Plone/3.2.1
Expires: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 14:10:14 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Etag: ||IBME-MainTheme|en-gb;en;q=0.5|1|6509||||343382
X-Caching-Rule-Id: plone-content-types
Cache-Control: max-age=0, s-maxage=0, private, must-revalidate
X-Header-Set-Id: cache-in-memory
Content-Length: 0
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:10:14 GMT
X-Varnish: 1423877020
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000/IBME/IBME/images/IBMEExterior.jpg/image_preview

GET /IBME/IBME/images/IBMEExterior.jpg/image_preview HTTP/1.1
Host: webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv: 1.9.0.6)
Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://webstar.eng.ox.ac.uk:8000/IBME/IBME
Cookie: __utmz=####
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:34:52 GMT

HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:10:14 GMT
Via: 1.1 varnish
X-Varnish: 1423877021
Last-Modified: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:34:52 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------

From this I assume that Varnish is indeed caching.

Still, slower performance than I'd expect.

Cheers,  Jim




You've got two different requests represented here. Both are conditional requests (If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since) which tells me that you have both items cached in the browser and your browser is just revalidating both. Neither response is delivering from the varnish cache, although the second is getting a validation response from varnish.

The first request is passed through to Plone and Plone response with a 304 Not Modified response to your validation request. The second request finds a cached entry in Varnish but also returns a 304 Not Modified response.

The Varnish header contains one or two numbers. The first is just the id of the current transaction, the second only shows up if there is a delivery from the cache and it just shows the id of the previous transaction that put the item in the cache. So if you have one number, no cache hit.

Ric






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