proxy_cache_use_stale, updating question

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:30:24PM +0100, Tomasz Pajor wrote:

> 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>If I understand the code correctly, when I don't have the cache
> >>file, request is going directly
> >>to upstream, so when I have 100 request at the time when I don't
> >>have the cache file yet, all
> >>those requests will go to upstream servers, am I correct?
> >Yes.
> Wouldn't it be better to send only one request, and tell other to
> wait for the page when updating is set?

Yes.  This is called "busy locks" in mod_accel, and usually 
referenced here under the same name.  It's planned but not 
implemented in nginx yet.

Maxim Dounin