Tuning varnish for high load

[Michael S. Fischer]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Henning Stener <h.stener at betradar.com> wrote:
>
>  Are you sending one request per connection and closing it, or are you
>  serving a number of requests to 10K different connections? In the last
>  case how many requests/sec are you seeing?

In our test, we sent about 200 requests per connection, and achieved
around 16,000-18,000 requests/sec.  Trying to issue one request per
connection will quickly exhaust the number of available open TCP
sockets.

--Michael