The cache effectiveness of this is actually quite good, but I'm deliberately being ambiguous about the ratio. The reason for my ambiguity is that our cache-hit

The cache effectiveness of this is actually quite good, but I'm deliberately being ambiguous about the ratio. The reason for my ambiguity is that our cache-hit ratio is actually a result of our application. This architectural design afforded us the ability to maintain our (very high) cache-hit ratio, even when we outgrew the total slab size of a single varnish node. That ability to maintain the same cache-hit ratio, the motivation for this effort, is the result of not needing to evict cached content prior to TTL. So, if you have a low cache-hit ratio due to eviction (and you don't just have excessive TTLs), then your cache pool is probably too small. If so, then you might want to give this design a shot - it's an analog to using ketama for growing memcache beyond a single node.