On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Traian Bratucu <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, varnish documentation tends to kind of suck. The "-s file" does not > mean persistent storage, but simply that the file will be mmapped, so even if > you have 2Gb of RAM, you can use a mmapped file of 10Gb. There is a new "-s > persistence" which is documented for now as "new, shiny, better", you can > make whatever you want out of that > (http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/reference/varnishd.html - Storage > Types). > I am not a varnish developer, just using varnish. Perhaps one of the > developers may explain more.
This was precisely my limited understanding as well. I'm still curious whether -s file could be hacked to be persistent and what exactly -s persistence is. > > Traian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yang Zhang [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:08 AM > To: Traian Bratucu > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Understanding persistent storage > > Thanks. Out of curiosity, the file stevedore is documented with: > "file: mmap's a file and uses it for storage" - why can't this be made > persistent? And what's the difference from -s persistent? > -- > Yang Zhang > http://yz.mit.edu/ > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > -- Yang Zhang http://yz.mit.edu/ _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
