Preloading Cached Contents into Varnish?

[Joe Chen]

I haven't received any reply besides Adrian's one. Is this emailing list
active?  I still need someone to point me to a good direction of adding
preloaded cache in the storage.

--Joe


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Joe Chen <joec1502 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Adrian Otto <aotto at mosso.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I like Varnish's performance in caching and try to add a capability of
>>> preloading cached contents into Varnish server.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that I need to find a right spot for inserting hash
>>> index, and then right spot for inserting cached contents into cache storage.
>>>
>>
>> Why not just implement a simple HTTP client script to walk the list of
>> URL's you want to load on some suitable interval? This way you don't need
>> any code modifications.
>>
>> This would work if I could pull the contents.  Unfortunately, my cached
> contents can not be pulled in, can only be pushed in by an outside  server.
> So my own program will receive the pushed-in contents in terms of http
> header and body, and then inserted them into the Varnish cache storage.
>
>>
>>  I also intend to use memory as only cache storage, not hard disk.
>>>
>>
>> Simply define the storage file/volume to be smaller than your main memory
>> minus some capacity for the server to run in. In my use case on a server
>> with 32 GB RAM, I use a 30GB storage volume, and I see practically no disk
>> access because the cached pages always fit in memory.
>>
>
> Didn't known that, I'll definitely try it.  But my running system will be
> disk-less, so not sure if I have to change the code or not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Joe
>
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