On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Matt Schurenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah it says "deleted" when I use lsof. Is this going to cause a problem > eventually? Since the file is gone is the kernel just using RAM alone now? > Swap usage hasn't increased. I'm wondering how it is continuing to function.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Moseley > Sent: September-26-11 1:00 PM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: varnish backing file gone missing > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Matt Schurenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> Update: >> >> >> >> I noticed that I mistakenly created a 40GB zero-filled file rather than a >> 48GB one: >> >> >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/varnish-cache bs=1G count=40 >> >> >> >> Not sure if that would make any difference. >> >> >> >> Matt Schurenko >> Systems Administrator >> >> >> airG® Share Your World >> Suite 710, 1133 Melville Street >> >> Vancouver, BC V6E 4E5 >> >> P: +1.604.408.2228 >> >> F: +1.866.874.8136 >> >> E: [email protected] >> >> W: www.airg.com >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Schurenko >> Sent: September-26-11 12:43 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: varnish backing file gone missing >> >> >> >> I just noticed that the backing file I configured varnish to use is now >> gone: >> >> >> >> [root@mvp13 ~]# ps -ef | grep varnishd >> >> root 4419 1 0 Sep07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/varnishd -s >> file,/tmp/varnish-cache,48G -T 127.0.0.1:2000 -a 0.0.0.0:80 -t 604800 -f >> /usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl -p http_headers 384 -p connect_timeout >> 4.0 >> >> >> >> [root@mvp13 ~]# ls /tmp/varnish-cache >> >> ls: /tmp/varnish-cache: No such file or directory >> >> >> >> If I do an lsof I see this: >> >> >> >> varnishd 4420 nobody 4u REG 8,1 51539607552 >> 62160904 /tmp/varnish-cache (deleted) >> >> >> >> I'm pretty sure I never deleted it. Is this normal behaviour? What are the >> implications of this file being removed while varnish is running? Varnishd >> still appears to be working fine. I have another varnish server running but >> the backing file is still there. BTW I'm running varnish version 2.1.5. >> >> >> > > Perhaps a log rotation script deleted it? If so and varnishd is still > running, it should show up in lsof with "(deleted)" next to the > pathname. It'll work as long as varnishd has it open. It'll only get released when varnished closes it. I'd suggest moving to something like /var/{lib,cache,run}/varnish _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
