hi des
thanks for your reply.
in order to get an idea how to optimize my setup and get a better
understanding i'd like to recap to make sure i understood correctly:
Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 17:10:56 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
If you're using a storage file, varnishd will use a relatively small
amount of memory + address space roughly equal to the size of the file.
-s file,/home/zope/parts/varnish/storage,500M
will make the varnishd use around 750M RAM (see my comment on the next block),
a storage file with 700M will result in around 950M RAM used.
if that address space needs roughly the same amout of RAM as the storage
file's size - and the cache is not persisted (lost when varnishd is
restarted) - why do we need a storage file at all?
whilst the file itself is exactly 500 megabyte in size, varnish
uses 1115M memory - 44% of the total available 2,5GB RAM (1,5GB RAM, 1GB
disk-swap) after 5 days of uptime. see `figure 1` below.
It's not that simple. The file is mapped into varnishd's address space,
so the VIRT number you get from top includes the size of the file (as
well as the size of the program itself and all libraries it uses). RES
is how much of that is actually in RAM. The OS may swap unused parts of
the cache to the storage file, but never to the swap partition.
using the sizes given in the RES column varnish uses 673+81=754M RAM::
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
1344 nobody15 0 1349m 673m 133m S0 44.5 0:08.38 varnishd
1244 zope 15 0 637m 461m 3428 S0 30.5 40:41.93 python2.4
1245 root 15 0 98196 81m 81m S0 5.4 0:00.02 varnishd
so the relatively small amount of ram varnish uses in addition to the
address space is about 200M.
are these usual numbers?
You should probably look at /proc/$pid/map instead of using top, BTW.
i tried out /proc/$pid/maps but did not really succeed in calculating memory
usage out of the address blocks (i think this is what needs to be done here?)
this is an example from the manpage http://linux.die.net/man/5/proc
address perms offset dev inode pathname
08048000-08056000 r-xp 03:0c 64593 /usr/sbin/gpm
08056000-08058000 rw-p d000 03:0c 64593 /usr/sbin/gpm
probably the RES column in top is enough to get an idea how much RAM is
consumed by a process.
regards, harald
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