[axxs-sysadmin] Two Questions

[Torrance]

Genius!

I've reverted indy.org.nz back to standard varnish configuration, and I
can't seem to generate the 503 errors anymore, so I think your fix worked.

Thanks!
Torrance

On 12/06/10 4:06 AM, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> I suspect I found and fixed the problem? Can anyone who sees this still
> happening please let me know.
>
> Ie you'd see requests, (most likely post requests) get intermittent 503
> errors.
>
> I think the problem relates to Keepalive timeouts which were set very
> short in apache. I've extended the timeout period for these.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> andrew wrote:
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>> If that works, then it's probably a good idea to pipe all POST requests
>> for all sites (and not do this for GET requests for indymedia.org.nz).
>>
>> I'd like to capture some test results first though.  I'll do that tonight.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> Torrance wrote:
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>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> I've sent you offlist the curl request to reproduce the problem as well
>>> as a tcpdump if you want to look into this further. The problem affects
>>> all sites on axxs.
>>>
>>> For now, I've changed the varnish settings for indymedia.org.nz to
>>> "pipe" requests through to apache without alteration, and this seems to
>>> be avoiding the 503s. That fixes it for us, but not for anyone else
>>> (though no one else seems to have noticed the errors).
>>>
>>> Torrance
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/06/10 10:15 PM, andrew wrote:
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>>>> Torrance wrote:
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>>>>> On 7/06/10 9:40 PM, andrew wrote:
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>>>>>> What's actually going wrong?  I reckon it's worth a bit of debugging
>>>>>> before throwing varnish out.
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>>>>> Aye, and that's what I've been doing. I've passed example debug info
>>>>> from varnishlog off to the varnish dev list as per their requests. Quite
>>>>> a number of people have been reporting the bug over the last 6 months,
>>>>> but the devs haven't deemed fixing it a priority.
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>>>> If it's just in the last 6 months, then what about rolling back to an
>>>> earlier version of varnish? 
>>>> Any recent features that are particularly important to anyone?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
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