Varnish 503 Service unavailable error

Paras Fadte plfgoa at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 09:02:46 CEST 2009


Hi,

Can anybody please respond to this ?

-Paras

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Paras Fadte<plfgoa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following is the output of varnishstat -1 . Also ,do I have to restart
> varnish when I change the "connect_timeout" parameter ?   I had
> changed it by telnetting to port 99 and using param.set to set new
> value to it. Its currently set to 1 second.
>
> ./varnishstat -1
>
> uptime                  63373          .   Child uptime
> client_conn            634043        10.00 Client connections accepted
> client_req           17826332       281.29 Client requests received
> cache_hit             9499758       149.90 Cache hits
> cache_hitpass           18026         0.28 Cache hits for pass
> cache_miss            8306918       131.08 Cache misses
> backend_conn          8294978       130.89 Backend connections success
> backend_unhealthy            0         0.00 Backend connections not attempted
> backend_busy                0         0.00 Backend connections too many
> backend_fail            37154         0.59 Backend connections failures
> backend_reuse             176         0.00 Backend connections reuses
> backend_recycle          4135         0.07 Backend connections recycles
> backend_unused              0         0.00 Backend connections unused
> n_srcaddr                1128          .   N struct srcaddr
> n_srcaddr_act              94          .   N active struct srcaddr
> n_sess_mem               1550          .   N struct sess_mem
> n_sess                    251          .   N struct sess
> n_object               296920          .   N struct object
> n_objecthead           297600          .   N struct objecthead
> n_smf                  594501          .   N struct smf
> n_smf_frag               5072          .   N small free smf
> n_smf_large                 2          .   N large free smf
> n_vbe_conn                 79          .   N struct vbe_conn
> n_bereq                   233          .   N struct bereq
> n_wrk                     129          .   N worker threads
> n_wrk_create             6518         0.10 N worker threads created
> n_wrk_failed                0         0.00 N worker threads not created
> n_wrk_max             1689251        26.66 N worker threads limited
> n_wrk_queue                 0         0.00 N queued work requests
> n_wrk_overflow          40268         0.64 N overflowed work requests
> n_wrk_drop                  0         0.00 N dropped work requests
> n_backend                   7          .   N backends
> n_expired             7859618          .   N expired objects
> n_lru_nuked            122535          .   N LRU nuked objects
> n_lru_saved                 0          .   N LRU saved objects
> n_lru_moved           6525309          .   N LRU moved objects
> n_deathrow                  0          .   N objects on deathrow
> losthdr                  1395         0.02 HTTP header overflows
> n_objsendfile               0         0.00 Objects sent with sendfile
> n_objwrite           17776012       280.50 Objects sent with write
> n_objoverflow               0         0.00 Objects overflowing workspace
> s_sess                 634043        10.00 Total Sessions
> s_req                17826354       281.29 Total Requests
> s_pipe                      0         0.00 Total pipe
> s_pass                  18274         0.29 Total pass
> s_fetch               8294976       130.89 Total fetch
> s_hdrbytes         7506851578    118455.05 Total header bytes
> s_bodybytes       33144737427    523010.39 Total body bytes
> sess_closed            101942         1.61 Session Closed
> sess_pipeline               0         0.00 Session Pipeline
> sess_readahead              0         0.00 Session Read Ahead
> sess_linger                 0         0.00 Session Linger
> sess_herd            17790160       280.72 Session herd
> shm_records        1322178282     20863.43 SHM records
> shm_writes           48024610       757.81 SHM writes
> shm_flushes           1486419        23.46 SHM flushes due to overflow
> shm_cont                 3563         0.06 SHM MTX contention
> shm_cycles                596         0.01 SHM cycles through buffer
> sm_nreq              16778276       264.75 allocator requests
> sm_nobj                589427          .   outstanding allocations
> sm_balloc          3745964032          .   bytes allocated
> sm_bfree            549003264          .   bytes free
> sma_nreq                    0         0.00 SMA allocator requests
> sma_nobj                    0          .   SMA outstanding allocations
> sma_nbytes                  0          .   SMA outstanding bytes
> sma_balloc                  0          .   SMA bytes allocated
> sma_bfree                   0          .   SMA bytes free
> sms_nreq                31613         0.50 SMS allocator requests
> sms_nobj                    0          .   SMS outstanding allocations
> sms_nbytes       18446744073709550684          .   SMS outstanding bytes
> sms_balloc           14697712          .   SMS bytes allocated
> sms_bfree            14698178          .   SMS bytes freed
> backend_req           8294971       130.89 Backend requests made
> n_vcl                       1         0.00 N vcl total
> n_vcl_avail                 1         0.00 N vcl available
> n_vcl_discard               0         0.00 N vcl discarded
> n_purge                     1          .   N total active purges
> n_purge_add                 1         0.00 N new purges added
> n_purge_retire              0         0.00 N old purges deleted
> n_purge_obj_test            0         0.00 N objects tested
> n_purge_re_test             0         0.00 N regexps tested against
> n_purge_dups                0         0.00 N duplicate purges removed
> hcb_nolock                  0         0.00 HCB Lookups without lock
> hcb_lock                    0         0.00 HCB Lookups with lock
> hcb_insert                  0         0.00 HCB Inserts
> esi_parse                   0         0.00 Objects ESI parsed (unlock)
> esi_errors                  0         0.00 ESI parse errors (unlock)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Tollef Fog
> Heen<tfheen at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
>> ]] Paras Fadte
>>
>> | I have tried setting the "first_byte_timeout" value to 300 but still
>> | sometimes receive the 503 error . Should I increase the
>> | "connect_timeout" value ? would that help ? Its default value is 0.4
>> | seconds
>>
>> It might help to increase the connect timeout, yes.  It would be helpful
>> if you posted the output of varnishstat -1
>>
>> --
>> Tollef Fog Heen
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