too many clients

2009-09-02 Thread Václav Bílek
Helo I have got a problem using varnish infront of webserwer cluster running arroung 20K req/s; when i tried to put varnish(4 loadbalanced machines 8CPU cores each 32GB ram) infront of this farm it serves OK for few seconds but then aper in syslog such messages: kernel: TCP: drop open request

Re: Varnish memory consumption issues?

2009-09-02 Thread Kristian Lyngstol
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:09:15AM -0400, pub crawler wrote: Hello, new to Varnish. We have been running Varnish for about 5 days now. So far, excellent product. We have a potential issue and I haven't seen anything like this before. We just restarted Varnish - we have a 1GB cache file

Re: Varnish memory consumption issues?

2009-09-02 Thread pub crawler
Thanks Kristian for the explanation. I posted this, and I believe it likely was our issue - perhaps not starting Cherokee with proper parameters included. Our configuration is pretty barbones default per se. What is troubling is 153GB is more resources than this machine has RAM + disk combined.

Child Died

2009-09-02 Thread maillists0
I just started my first instance of varnish in production. Within 12 hours, there were alerts from our monitoring system that Varnish was taking 90% of the cpu. Right after that, I find these messages in /var/log/messages, several times over a 2 minute period: varnishd[12461]: Child (20086) not

Flushing buffer during page delivery

2009-09-02 Thread Daniel Baker
Hello -- We have our apache children flush the buffer when generating a page after emitting the JS/CSS includes, after emitting the page framework, etc. However, despite that we're flushing the buffer to Varnish, it doesn't seem to deliver any of the data to the user until the page is