Re: Varnish restarts when all memory is allocated

2009-05-29 Thread Marco Walraven
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:29:08PM +0200, Marco Walraven wrote: Hi, We are testing a Varnish Cache in our production environment with a 500Gb storage file and 32Gb of RAM. Varnish performance is excellent when all of the 32Gb is not allocated yet. The rates I am seeing here are around

Re: Varnish restarts when all memory is allocated

2009-05-29 Thread Michael S. Fischer
I think the lesson of these cases is pretty clear: make your cacheable working set fits into the proxy server's available memory -- or, if you want to exceed your available memory, make sure your hit ratio is sufficiently high that the cache server rarely resorts to paging in the data.