Out of memory exception on Varnish 2.1.5

[Per Buer]

Hi Connor,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Connor Walls
<connor.walls at skillpages.com>wrote:

> Hi,****
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> We’ve recently been having problems with varnish being killed with out of
> memory problems, our logs show information like this:
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This is not a bug in Varnish. It is most probably a misconfiguration. You
either have to little memory in your system or you are asking Varnish to
use too much. I'm guessing you are using -s malloc. Remember that there is
a 1k overhead on each object stored in Varnish.



> ****
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> Now, we’ve been planning from Varnish 2.1.5 to 3.0 for a while, and we’re
> hoping that this will solve our issues, but I just want to check if there
> are known OOM issues in 2.1.5, or is the problem likely to persist after
> upgrading to 3.0?
>

It will probably persist.


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