Hello,
I have 2 machines running varnish which handles around 1000 requests per
second each and sometimes the machines will just stop responding to any
network communication. A coworker used wireshark to check the connection
and saw a whole lot of tcp retransmissions. Normally I would suspect
some sort of network buffer issue but there is nothing in the logs at
all. This is on FreeBSD 6.3 with a default 64 bit kernel with bge
network cards. They are both running varnish-trunk revision 2635.
Attached is the VCL file that is currently running. Varnish is started
with the following options:
file,/vol/data1/varnish.cache,90% -t 259200 -h classic,500009 -p
lru_interval=3600
The only suspicious things I've found are: Varnish says it is using 372G
of virtual memory when I told it to use a 58gb file and there is only
2gb of physical memory in the machine and there is pretty constant
swapping going on, mostly under 500K but it seems to be pretty constant
no matter the number of connections and such. The amount of swap space
in the machine is 4gb and things are using 1.1gb.
Threads don't seem to be a problem, as the highest I've seen it is at
500 and that was after an extended period of time around 250 or so. So I
don't think I'm running into thread issues
So I guess I'm asking if anyone has any other suggestions other then
reinstalling to FreeBSD 7.0 which seems to be the best solution I can
see. If that is the best solution, what is the optimal FreeBSD
configuration for Varnish? Lots of swap space? No swap space? Currently
the mmap-ed file is on an SSD so one alternative I thought of was to
make the entire SSD part of swap and use the malloc option and get rid
of any regular disk basked swap.
Thanks for any help,
Erik
backend default {
.host = "xzy.com";
.port = "80";
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.url ~ "\.js|css$") {
if (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
} elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
} else {
unset req.http.accept-encoding;
}
} else {
unset req.http.accept-encoding;
}
unset req.http.Cookie;
set req.grace = 10m;
}
sub vcl_fetch {
set obj.http.P3P = "CP='NOI CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR BUS IND UNI COM
NAV INT', policyref='http://www.okcupid.com/w3c/p3p.xml'";
set obj.grace = 10m;
if (obj.ttl < 259200s) {
set obj.ttl = 259200s;
}
}
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