In message <24a219a51001261923n40146083yb221aac2cadbc...@mail.gmail.com>, Marti n Goldman writes:
>1. How can you tell whether your Varnish objects fit in RAM? If you start seeing disk-activity, they do not fit. >2. If I have objects residing in virtual memory, to what extent will my >performance be adversely affected? If I want my site to be fast, do I >basically need to go out and buy as much RAM as it will take so that virtual >memory isn't needed? Well, the impact is the necessary disk-I/O to bring the object into RAM. Getting more RAM is one solution, but if your working set is much larger than 4G, getting a SSD disk instead might be a better investment. >3. I noticed tonight that my machine was using a few hundred megs of swap >space, Yes, varnish will force inactive programs (inetd, getty, sendmail etc) out to swap so it can get at the RAM. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
