Intermittent 503's from Varnish

[Steve Webster]

On 7 Nov 2011, at 13:31, AD wrote:

> Hmm Steve, not sure, here is the snippet from that wiki link.
> 
> Saint mode enables you to discard a certain page from one backend server and either try another server or serve stale content from cache
> 
> When we set beresp.saintmode to 10 seconds Varnish will not ask that server for URL for 10 seconds. A blacklist, more or less. Also a restart is performed so if you have other backends capable of serving that content Varnish will try those. When you are out of backends Varnish will serve the content from its stale cache.

If you set saintmode without also setting grace on both the cache object and the request, Varnish will simply end up returning 503 errors when you're out of working backends.

Cheers,

Steve

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