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PK_294685
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Mar 23, 2017

Caching on F5

All,

 

I'm trying to enable caching on the F5.

 

My F5's are running v12.1.2(HA) and load balancing apache servers. Caching is enabled on these servers . But F5 seems to be forcing it off.

 

When i go to the Application directly from the server, i'm seeing all static content like images, css files are showing as 'from servercache'.

 

when i go to application through F5, i can see content is downloaded taking some time. How can i enable caching to avoid this.

 

I applied a webacceleration profile to the VIP but ramcache list showing 0 records.

 

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
caching
LTM

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  • serkan_firat_31's avatar
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    Mar 23, 2017

    As per my experience, F5 web accelerator uses HTTP/1.0 in which HTTP persistent connections are not supported hence you dont have keep-alive, which will hurt your performance actually.

     

    When I saw this in our application, I was actually disappointed. HTTP/1.0 is just too slow.