My website is a Drupal 7 site serving mostly static content. I am currently using nginx + php-fcgi backend. I am running varnish on the front end. I have nginx microcache configured (15s for a 200 response), and it initially works as expected, but when the cache expires, subsequent requests fail to re-warm the cache, and it just misses. On loading, this swamps my backend. ## The cache zone referenced. fastcgi_cache microcache; fastcgi_cache_key $host$request_uri; fastcgi_cache_valid 200 301 15s; fastcgi_cache_valid 302 1m; fastcgi_cache_valid 404 1m; fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header updating http_500; fastcgi_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires; fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache; fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache; add_header X-Micro-Cache $upstream_cache_status; expires epoch; I think I should be getting hits for 15s, then one miss, which should trigger a php5-fpm process spawn, and should rewarm the cache. I should be getting served stale cached data in the meantime. Instead, curling headers at 1s intervals, I get 1 miss, 15s worth of hits, an Expired response, and then non-stop misses with new etags. If I let it sit for a while - like 30 seconds or so, I can get the process to start again, however, if I keep loading it misses continue indefinitely.
