Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-15 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
| My understanding of using 'pass' in vcl_hit is that it causes the object | to be marked as 'hit for pass' and therefore is uncacheable from that | point onwards. In fact, pass'ing out of vcl_hit was what I used to do a | while ago, but it caused that exact behaviour (items would no longer

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting | My understanding of using 'pass' in vcl_hit is that it causes the object | to be marked as 'hit for pass' and therefore is uncacheable from that | point onwards. In fact, pass'ing out of vcl_hit was what I used to do a | while ago, but it caused that

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-14 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
| My understanding of using 'pass' in vcl_hit is that it causes the object | to be marked as 'hit for pass' and therefore is uncacheable from that | point onwards. In fact, pass'ing out of vcl_hit was what I used to do a | while ago, but it caused that exact behaviour (items would no longer be

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-08 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
Hi DES, Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting darryl.di...@winterhouseconsulting.com writes: +if (req.http.Pragma ~ .*no-cache.* || req.http.Cache-Control ~ .*no-cache.*) { +purge_url(regsub(req.url, [?].*$, .*$)); +} + It would be interesting to see how often this

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-08 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
hi darryl i had a simlar problem (varnish child process consuming lots of memory) a week ago (see the thread make varnish don't start a subprocess) the solution for my problem seems to be to use a high-enough cache-size: starting varnish with -s file,/tmp/storage,300M will make the

Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-07 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
Hi All, I have an odd problem that I have only noticed happening since moving from 1.1.2 to 2.0.3 - excessive memory consumption of the varnish child process. For example, I have a varnish instance with a 256MB cache allocated, that is currently consuming 4.9GB of resident memory (6.5GB virtual).

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-07 Thread Michael S. Fischer
Not that I have an answer, but I'd be curious to see the differences in 'pmap -x pid' output for the different children. --Michael On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote: Hi All, I have an odd problem that I have only noticed happening since moving from

Re: Varnish 2.0.3 consuming excessive memory

2009-04-07 Thread Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting
Further to this, I just ran the pmap on the runaway process again (roughly 15 minutes since last time), and the large ~2GB allocation has jumped by about 60MB in that time, eg: -- 3940: /u01/app/varnish/sbin/varnishd -a