Varnish 2.0.5 released
By sru on Nov 9, 2009 in Caching in General, Varnish
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. This requires Varnish to be installed unstripped
- Consume less memory when processing ESI
- Better standards compliance with If-None-Match support and emitting more headers on 304 responses
- Add a FetchError log tag which makes it easier to understand why a backend fetch failed.
From a first look it seems to me that not all things from trunk have made it into this release. But then, I’ll have to do some testing before I can be sure about that.
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I noticed you’re running varnish on a wordpress instance. We’re having tremendous trouble getting varnish to play nice with wordpress (not being able to create posts occassionally). Was wondering if you wouldn’t mind taking a look at our VCL file and see if anything jumps out that we’re doing horribly wrong?
Running Varnish 2.1.2, and have had lots of stability issues. Keeps crashing every few hours.. Luckily it starts back up, but the cache gets wiped out. /var/log/messages shows Child died signal 11 (seg fault).. Wondering if anyone else has come across these issues at all?
Sorry, didn’t check in for a while due to other business. Well, yes, if it’s still causing you problems I can have a look at your VCL. And if I’m not mistaken the signal 11 problem has been addresses in one of the latest changes to varnish trunk on SVN so you may want to give that a try.