On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Crowder, Travis
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  I recall seeing on the mailing list before a reason why Varnish would
> use more RAM than allocated due to storing something outside of the defined
> allocated memory.****
>
> ** **
>
> For example, I have a box that is allocated 6G of RAM, but it is using
> about 12G virtual memory.
>

That doesn't make sense. Virtual memory is virtual. You're not using it,
Varnish has mapped it into it's memory space. Just ignore it.

Also, note that allocating memory to a backend (6G) does not include the
amount of memory needed for the various internal structures - more or less
1k per object.

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