[3.0] b4b63b4 document the transient stevedore
Tollef Fog Heen
tfheen at varnish-cache.org
Wed Aug 17 11:28:55 CEST 2011
commit b4b63b44bb8c882402e9dd074c7036bfb99561db
Author: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at varnish-software.com>
Date: Wed Aug 17 10:41:16 2011 +0200
document the transient stevedore
more on transient.
didn't get it rigth the first time.
Thanks to scoof for pointing it out.
(cherry picked from commit 6a59dacccb1fc402c5d1cd703c048835ba400c38
and 0b23a0f083865f75905bf66dde80fc4ac6458463)
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/reference/varnishd.rst b/doc/sphinx/reference/varnishd.rst
index 0a18546..1e00d0c 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/reference/varnishd.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/reference/varnishd.rst
@@ -87,9 +87,11 @@ OPTIONS
-S file Path to a file containing a secret used for authorizing access to the management port.
--s type[,options]
+-s [name=]type[,options]
Use the specified storage backend. See Storage Types for a list of supported storage
- types. This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple storage files.
+ types. This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple storage files. You
+ can name the different backends. Varnish will then reference that backend with the
+ given name in logs, statistics, etc.
-T address[:port]
Offer a management interface on the specified address and port. See Management
@@ -208,6 +210,12 @@ file[,path[,size[,granularity]]]
persistence[XXX]
New, shiny, better.
+Transient Storage
+-----------------
+
+ If you name any of your storage backend "Transient" it will be
+ used for transient (short lived) objects. By default Varnish
+ would use an unlimited malloc backend for this.
Management Interface
--------------------
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