> Hi, > > Here's my setup: > > [r...@varnish1 ~]# rpm -qa |grep varnish > varnish-libs-2.0.4-1.el5 > varnish-2.0.4-1.el5 > [r...@varnish1 ~]# uname -a > Linux varnish1.example.com 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST > 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [r...@varnish1 ~]# ps aux |grep varnishd > root 27993 0.0 0.0 106472 816 ? Ss 17:42 0:00 > /usr/sbin/varnishd -P /var/run/varnish.pid -a 10.1.2.51:80 -T :6082 -f > /etc/varnish/default.vcl -u varnish -g varnish -s > file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,1G > varnish 28063 0.9 1.0 1474728 62860 ? Sl 17:43 0:06 > /usr/sbin/varnishd -P /var/run/varnish.pid -a 10.1.2.51:80 -T :6082 -f > /etc/varnish/default.vcl -u varnish -g varnish -s > file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,1G > root 28799 0.0 0.0 61192 732 pts/3 S+ 17:56 0:00 grep > varnishd > > The problem that I've encountered twice now is the following: > > 1) Varnish spreads to use over 8GB of swap, despite appearing to be > configured to only use 1GB of storage > 2) Our automated monitoring indicates that we're running out of swap > space. > 3) Restart varnish > 4) From this point, varnishlog and varnishncsa return no output. > > Can anyone suggest why varnish is using more memory than it's allocated, > and why varnishlog would stop returning any output? Varnishlog was > writing to disk, so I can probably extract the end of that, if it's of > use. >
Hi Rob, There have been a few threads about this now on this mailing list. Probably it relates to the use of purge_url in your VCL. Are you using this function at all? regards, Darryl Dixon Winterhouse Consulting Ltd http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
