Memory spreading, then stop responding

[Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting]

> Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> Can anyone suggest why varnish is using more memory than it's
>>> allocated,
>>> and why varnishlog would stop returning any output?  Varnishlog was
>>> writing to disk, so I can probably extract the end of that, if it's of
>>> use.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> There have been a few threads about this now on this mailing list.
>> Probably it relates to the use of purge_url in your VCL. Are you using
>> this function at all?
>>
>> regards,
>> Darryl
> Darryl,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  Yes we are using purge_url, but I was under the
> impression that since http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/changeset/3329,
> there wasn't a problem.  I've not succeeded in finding the threads you
> mentioned in your email.  Can you either point me at them, or let me
> know their conclusion?
>

Hi Rob,

See the thread concluding here (the solution to swap purge_url for
obj.ttl=0 is the correct one):
http://projects.linpro.no/pipermail/varnish-misc/2009-April/002743.html

And also the thread concluding here:
http://projects.linpro.no/pipermail/varnish-misc/2009-June/002840.html

regards,
Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com