Out of memory exception on Varnish 2.1.5

[Connor Walls]

Ah, I was under the impression that varnish would evict items from the cache if memory usage hit the ceiling. Thanks for the help, I look into our configuration and see if there's anything we can do.

Thanks,
Connor

From: Per Buer [mailto:perbu at varnish-software.com]
Sent: 22 August 2012 16:12
To: Connor Walls
Cc: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory exception on Varnish 2.1.5

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

We've recently been having problems with varnish being killed with out of memory problems, our logs show information like this:

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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