Commit 7b5f5405 authored by Per Buer's avatar Per Buer

Remove saint mode.

parent 1a25542f
......@@ -56,48 +56,3 @@ So, to sum up, grace mode solves two problems:
* it serves stale content to avoid request pile-up.
* it serves stale content if the backend is not healthy.
Saint mode
~~~~~~~~~~
Sometimes servers get flaky. They start throwing out random
errors. You can instruct Varnish to try to handle this in a
more-than-graceful way - enter *Saint mode*. Saint mode enables you to
discard a certain page from one backend server and either try another
server or serve stale content from cache. Lets have a look at how this
can be enabled in VCL::
sub vcl_fetch {
if (beresp.status == 500) {
set beresp.saintmode = 10s;
return(restart);
}
set beresp.grace = 5m;
}
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.
This can really be a life saver.
Known limitations on grace- and saint mode
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If your request fails while it is being fetched you're thrown into
vcl_error. vcl_error has access to a rather limited set of data so you
can't enable saint mode or grace mode here. This will be addressed in a
future release but a work-around available.
* Declare a backend that is always sick.
* Set a magic marker in vcl_error
* Restart the transaction
* Note the magic marker in vcl_recv and set the backend to the one mentioned
* Varnish will now serve stale data is any is available
God mode
~~~~~~~~
Not implemented yet. :-)
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