On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:36, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > [...] > You might also look at "fixing" varnish: I don't know of any valid > reason for it to be using the "half-open" connection model to test that > an HTTP-based backend is "up"
Going out on a limb here, but I think Varnish might be trying to save on file-descriptors. It could be a while before a backend-server answers and Varnish could have a large number of fds open on any given time while talking to both clients and servers. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )