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[necro]

Correct. The reverse proxy pulls from the fast, local network apache, and then passed the data to the slow clients. Apace is connected for a shorter time. Basically you're trying minimize the time a "memory expensive" process like apache is open per client.

[stavros → necro]

Yep, makes perfect sense, thank you. I've disabled keepalive and increased my mancrush on varnish.