Miscellaneous questions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <86db848d0803170947q13b5aa40u1593d885aabf6553 at mail.gmail.com>, "Mich
ael S. Fischer" writes:
>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
>>  >No, we were talking about how long an idle backend connection is kept
>>  >open (or at least I was).
>>
>>  Yes I know :-)
>>
>>  And we don't do anything to close those before the backend closes on
>>  us, we have no reason to, the longer we keep it, the more connection
>>  setups we avoid.
>
>So does Varnish close HTTP Keep-Alive backend connections after an
>idle period?  or not?

We _never_ close a backend connection until the backend closed its end.

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