Re: make varnish don't start a subprocess

2009-03-26 Thread Harald Friessnegger
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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Re: Purge and cache content mist.

2009-03-23 Thread Harald Friessnegger
hi sebastien


Am Montag, 23. März 2009 12:32:22 schrieb Sébastien FOUTREL:
 Hello,

 I read a lot of things in the list and varnish sites but some things stay
 fuzzy to me.

 Is there a way to find if something is in the cache, have a map of cached
 content or some script that give one ?

i don't know of a list output. what i do is to use varnishlog or turn on debug 
headers:


open varnishlog, request a resource and see at the X-Varnish-Action Header


requesting a resource the first time that gets cached will give you

TxHeader c X-Varnish-Action: FETCH (insert)

requesting it again will log

TxHeader c X-Varnish-Action: HIT (deliver - from cache)



personally i'm using some combination with grep that gives me the headers i'm 
interested in:


For debugging all requests to a certain url (eg /test/test/image_mini) and see 
important headers::

varnishlog -c -o  RxURL '^/test/test/image_mini$' | grep -E RxRequest|RxURL|
Host:|TxStatus|TxResponse|X-Varnish-Action




 Is it possible to do recursive purge in a way or another ?

 I'd like to purge www.example.org/that-part/ is to possible to simply
 purge all objects under that url ?


run varnish with the -T option (eg -T localhost:6182)

connet via telnet:

telnet localhost 6182

and call something like

url.purge /that-part/.*


to see whether to use www.example.org/that-part or just /that-part or any 
other fancy url (you might have a webserver rewrite urls for doing 
virtualhosting) you can use varnishlog again:

varnishlog -c -i RxURL



hope that helps
  fRiSi



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Re: Purge and cache content mist.

2009-03-23 Thread Harald Friessnegger
hi 

Am Montag, 23. März 2009 15:10:01 schrieb Sébastien FOUTREL:
 Thank you.

 About the url.purge, should I understand that url.purge doesn't manage
 hosts so url.purge /that-part/.* will purge 
 http://onedomain.com/that-part/* and http://otherdomain.com/that-part/* ?
 Can I use onedomaine\.com/that-part/.* to purge only '/that-part/' in that
 host :) ?

on my setup i only have one host. i'm sure you can restrict that to one single 
host, but i don't know by heart.


if url.purge can't do that you can setup url purging
see the link below the faq question
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/FAQ#HowcanIforcearefreshonaobjectcachedbyvarnish
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/VCLExamplePurging

regards, harald



 -Message d'origine-
 De : Harald Friessnegger [mailto:har...@webmeisterei.com]
 Envoyé : lundi 23 mars 2009 14:14
 À : varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no
 Cc : Sébastien FOUTREL
 Objet : Re: Purge and cache content mist.

 hi sebastien

 Am Montag, 23. März 2009 12:32:22 schrieb Sébastien FOUTREL:
  Hello,
 
  I read a lot of things in the list and varnish sites but some things stay
  fuzzy to me.
 
  Is there a way to find if something is in the cache, have a map of cached
  content or some script that give one ?

 i don't know of a list output. what i do is to use varnishlog or turn on
 debug headers:


 open varnishlog, request a resource and see at the X-Varnish-Action Header


 requesting a resource the first time that gets cached will give you

 TxHeader c X-Varnish-Action: FETCH (insert)

 requesting it again will log

 TxHeader c X-Varnish-Action: HIT (deliver - from cache)



 personally i'm using some combination with grep that gives me the headers
 i'm interested in:


 For debugging all requests to a certain url (eg /test/test/image_mini) and
 see important headers::

 varnishlog -c -o  RxURL '^/test/test/image_mini$' | grep -E
 RxRequest|RxURL| Host:|TxStatus|TxResponse|X-Varnish-Action

  Is it possible to do recursive purge in a way or another ?
 
  I'd like to purge www.example.org/that-part/ is to possible to simply
  purge all objects under that url ?

 run varnish with the -T option (eg -T localhost:6182)

 connet via telnet:

 telnet localhost 6182

 and call something like

 url.purge /that-part/.*


 to see whether to use www.example.org/that-part or just /that-part or any
 other fancy url (you might have a webserver rewrite urls for doing
 virtualhosting) you can use varnishlog again:

 varnishlog -c -i RxURL



 hope that helps
   fRiSi

  Thank you.
 
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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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