Looks like the child processes are dying regularly, causing the restart.. I increased the ping_interval as flavio recommended ,and the cli timeout. Took longer to die, (12 minutes this time), but finally pooped out.. This was in the /var/log/messages...
Jun 24 18:13:23 srv860 varnishd[25646]: Child (26549) died signal=11 Jun 24 18:13:23 srv860 varnishd[25646]: child (27359) Started Jun 24 18:13:23 srv860 varnishd[25646]: Child (27359) said Jun 24 18:13:23 srv860 varnishd[25646]: Child (27359) said Child starts Any other suggestions? On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Caunter, Stefan wrote: > Check dmesg too, child is probably dying. Problem with persistent I > found, I had to go back to file. > > Stefan Caunter :: Senior Systems Administrator :: TOPS > e: [email protected] :: m: (416) 561-4871 > www.thestar.com www.topscms.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Nowacky > Sent: June-24-10 1:51 PM > To: Flavio Torres > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Varnish restarting sporadically... losing entire cache... > > Thanks Flavio! Here's the errors that I see in the /var/log/messages... > Is this what you were seeing? > > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22165) Panic message: > Assert error in SMP_FreeObj(), storage_persistent.c line 802: > Condition(sg->nfixed > 0) not true. thread = (cache-timeout) ident = > Linux,2.6.18-128.4.1.el5PAE,i686,-spersistent,-hclassic,epoll Backtrace: > 0x806ca7c: pan_ic+cc 0x808851e: SMP_FreeObj+13e 0x8064b5f: > HSH_Deref+21f 0x80618d1: exp_timer+321 0x806f1fd: wrk_bgthread+cd > 0x44249b: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x44249b] 0x39942e: > /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0x39942e] > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: child (22984) Started > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Child starts > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Dropped 0 > segments to make free_reserve > Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Silo > completely loaded > On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Flavio Torres wrote: > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
