make varnish don't start a subprocess

[Harald Friessnegger]

hi there

when i start varnishd i'll find two varnishd processes running afterwards:

  # top
  ...
  Mem:   1548288k total,  1540624k used,     7664k free,     2172k buffers
  Swap:  1048568k total,   767628k used,   280940k free,   171980k cached
  13271 nobody    15   0 1864m 771m  90m S    0 51.0   0:14.43 varnishd
  13263 zope      15   0  635m 454m 3500 S    0 30.1  47:59.16 python2.4
  13265 root      15   0 98192  81m  80m S    0  5.4   0:00.04 varnishd
  13262 root      16   0  109m  12m 2772 S    0  0.8   0:50.06 python2.4
  ...


is there a way to run varnish as a single process?


background:
i'd like to control the memory-usage of processes and restart them if they 
grow above a certain limit using http://supervisord.org/.

the varnishd started by supervisor just needs 5% memory and gets restarted if 
it grows above a certain limit. the subprocess eats up my RAM and can't be 
conrolled by supervisor.

full problem description can be seen in the supervisor-users mailinglist 
archive:
http://lists.supervisord.org/pipermail/supervisor-users/2009-March/000313.html

people at supervisor mailing list pointed me to varnish-misc.


thanks for your help!
  fRiSi









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