Letsgetdugg

Since Varnish did not work out on Solaris yet again. I have decided to bite the bullet and write a headers normalization patch for Squid 2.7. This patch should produce much better cache hit rates with Squid. Efficiency++ What the patch does: 1. Removes Cache-Control request headers, don’t let clients by-pass cache if it is […]

Squid is a fundamental part of our infrastructure at Fabulously40. It helps us lower response times quite considerably. The problem with Squid is that it is quite “dense” when it comes to configuration flexibility. Unless your willing to do a bit of C hacking on it, it does not have much configuration flexibility. This can […]

Update: Just an update, All the issues with Varnish on Solaris have been fixed with the 2.1.4 release. We have been using Varnish on our Solaris production servers since the release with great stability and performance. A big thanks to the Varnish devs and slink for the eventport fixes. I have dumped varnish as our […]