make varnish don't start a subprocess

2009-03-20 Thread Harald Friessnegger 
hi there

when i start varnishd i'll find two varnishd processes running afterwards:

  # top
  ...
  Mem:   1548288k total,  1540624k used,     7664k free,     2172k buffers
  Swap:  1048568k total,   767628k used,   280940k free,   171980k cached
  13271 nobody    15   0 1864m 771m  90m S    0 51.0   0:14.43 varnishd
  13263 zope      15   0  635m 454m 3500 S    0 30.1  47:59.16 python2.4
  13265 root      15   0 98192  81m  80m S    0  5.4   0:00.04 varnishd
  13262 root      16   0  109m  12m 2772 S    0  0.8   0:50.06 python2.4
  ...


is there a way to run varnish as a single process?


background:
i'd like to control the memory-usage of processes and restart them if they 
grow above a certain limit using http://supervisord.org/.

the varnishd started by supervisor just needs 5% memory and gets restarted if 
it grows above a certain limit. the subprocess eats up my RAM and can't be 
conrolled by supervisor.

full problem description can be seen in the supervisor-users mailinglist 
archive:
http://lists.supervisord.org/pipermail/supervisor-users/2009-March/000313.html

people at supervisor mailing list pointed me to varnish-misc.


thanks for your help!
  fRiSi









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Re: make varnish don't start a subprocess

2009-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav 
Harald Friessnegger har...@webmeisterei.com writes:
 when i start varnishd i'll find two varnishd processes running
 afterwards:

Yes.

 is there a way to run varnish as a single process?

No.

 the varnishd started by supervisor just needs 5% memory and gets
 restarted if it grows above a certain limit. the subprocess eats up my
 RAM and can't be conrolled by supervisor.

The parent will restart it if you kill it (but doing so will flush the
cache).  However, varnishd doesn't eat memory, unless there is a bug.
You should read varnishd(1) and figure out how to select the storage
backend and how to limit the size of the cache.

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