On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:03 AM Hu Bert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning, > i think we solved the problem: we ran into a systemd limit (4915 tasks): > > https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/2822 > https://github.com/varnishcache/pkg-varnish-cache/blob/6c90eb775857573564dc1fe38424267143bb6b34/systemd/varnish.service#L19 > > It seems we hit that limit; i updated the (loooong outdated) v5 to v6 > LTS and set TasksMax=infinity. systemctl status varnish.service now > shows: Tasks: 7136 - so, yeah, solved :-) Thx for reading ;-)
Happy to see that moving to 6.0 solved the problem! > Hubert > > Am Mo., 18. Feb. 2019 um 10:58 Uhr schrieb Hu Bert <[email protected]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > we're using varnish v5 (debian stretch) for image caching; yesterday > > there was a strange outage where i'm somehow unable to find the reason > > as there are almost no log entries, besides one: > > > > Feb 17 09:03:47 rowlf kernel: [1047133.190149] cgroup: fork rejected > > by pids controller in /system.slice/varnish.service > > > > But the problems started a couple of minutes before that, so this > > message simply could be a result of previous problems. Some munin > > graphs: > > > > Backend traffic: strange spike in backend connection retry/success, > > decrease in recycle/reuse: > > https://abload.de/img/varnish_backend_traffqwj74.png > > > > Expunge: a similar spike in "Number of expired objects" > > https://abload.de/img/varnish_expunge-day5kk0l.png > > > > Threads: threads went up at that time; was lower before (restart was > > done on Feb 14th), and suddenly went up. > > day: https://abload.de/img/varnish_threads-dayzoken.png > > week: https://abload.de/img/varnish_threads-week7qjoo.png > > Backend graph: https://abload.de/img/nginx_status-day54jkd.png > > > > /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service : https://pastebin.com/aAhMHn4p > > Here's the (shortened) vcl file: https://pastebin.com/nVu5vVaa > > > > Anyone has an idea how to dig into this? Something horribly wrong in > > the vcl file? > > > > > > Thx, > > Hubert > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
