Re: slow responses from haproxied realservers

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Patrick Viet wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Willy Tarreau <w#1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> > I don't see your point. If a browser has to send 60 requests on a page, it
> > only depends on the application, the LB cannot lower that number. Maybe
> > you should install a reverse cache to relieve your servers (anyone tried
> > varnish ?).
> >
> >
> I have the most horrible experience with varnish.
> Not only it has no proper documentation, but it also crashes in a completely
> random way (answers half of the requests), just like BIND as a cache
> nameserver in a high volume setup does...
>
> I lost a customer over using varnish... And nearly lost another one.

Oh bad :-(

was it a recent version ? I'm asking because I've already seen some benchmarks showing very good results compared to squid. But a benchmark does not indicate reliability...

> Patrick

Thanks for the info anyway,
Willy Received on 2008/04/17 23:01