By sru on Nov 9, 2009 in Caching in General, Varnish | 3 Comments
More than six months after the release of version 2.0.4 today Varnish 2.0.5 has been released to the public. From the announcement:
This release contains multiple changes, amongst them:
Performance improvements, particularly on Linux.
Implement support for HTTP continuation lines
Handle illegal responses from the backend better by serving a 503 page rather than panic-ing
Add backtrace to assertion errors. [...]
By sru on Nov 4, 2009 in Caching in General, Varnish | 1 Comment
As you may or may not know, on Linux the number of threads a process can spawn is theoretically unlimited. In reality, however, you will encounter a small problem there: Since the initial stack size for every user is set to a whooping 8 MB you will run out of memory for your thread’s stacks [...]
By sru on Sep 9, 2009 in Benchmarks, Caching in General, Squid, Varnish | 4 Comments
On deserialized.com there’s a nice pair (Part I & Part II) of articles comparing Squid and Varnish.
While the findings there closely resemble the results of my own testing and live installations, they have to be taken with a grain of salt (as you should do with all test results anyway). The major thing here is [...]
