We are seeing an issue where one-for-one increments in "sms_nreq/SMS allocator 
requests" are resulting in 503 errors.   We are not getting any backend related 
errors.
This is happening on a very small percentage of the page requests, but it is 
repeatable in our load-tests.

A couple questions:
   1)  Is this a problem that has been seen before?  Is there a known 
configuration adjustment, work-around?
   2)  What specific function is performed by the SMS metrics measured in 
varnishstat?   The most I've found in my digging is that it is used for 
internal memory house-keeping.  There was a similar inquiry a couple of days 
ago on this message-list regarding SMS, SMA, SM, etc.   It would be good if 
there was something published somewhere that elaborates on what these measure.




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