Too much file space consumed by varnish in /var/lib/varnish/

[Per Buer]

Hi Ruben.

2011/8/5 Rubén Ortiz <ruben.ortiz at rsystem.com>

> Hello to all
>


> One of our customers warning us that after a reboot of varnishd (after some
> change in apache config) , varnish did not start. I checked and found the
> problem, hard disk full. I did "df -h" and "du" to find where was the
> problem and I founded in
>
> /var/lib/varnish/hostname/
>
> there were many files of varnish, because I have a setup up to 8 GB of
> hard disk. But the space consumed by cache was higher than I specified in
> /etc/sysconfig/varnish, about 18 GB, and surprisingly there were a lot of
> files very old (1 month)


> so, I suspect this behavior is because the customer make some changes in
> VCL
>
> I'm right?
>

No, these are options specified at startup. Delete the files, specify the
file to use ( -s file,8G,/var/lib/varnish/storage.tmp) and restart. Varnish
will then use the file specified
.

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