varnish *slowing* down site, any ideas?

Zachary Alex Stern zacharyalexstern at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 21:57:52 CEST 2012


*Output of varnishadm param.show:*

acceptor_sleep_decay       0.900000 []
acceptor_sleep_incr        0.001000 [s]
acceptor_sleep_max         0.050000 [s]
auto_restart               on [bool]
ban_dups                   on [bool]
ban_lurker_sleep           0.010000 [s]
between_bytes_timeout      60.000000 [s]
cc_command                 "exec gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -pthread -fpic
-shared -Wl,-x -o %o %s"
cli_buffer                 8192 [bytes]
cli_timeout                10 [seconds]
clock_skew                 10 [s]
connect_timeout            0.700000 [s]
critbit_cooloff            180.000000 [s]
default_grace              10.000000 [seconds]
default_keep               0.000000 [seconds]
default_ttl                120.000000 [seconds]
diag_bitmap                0x0 [bitmap]
esi_syntax                 0 [bitmap]
expiry_sleep               1.000000 [seconds]
fetch_chunksize            128 [kilobytes]
fetch_maxchunksize         262144 [kilobytes]
first_byte_timeout         60.000000 [s]
group                      nogroup (65534)
gzip_level                 6 []
gzip_memlevel              8 []
gzip_stack_buffer          32768 [Bytes]
gzip_tmp_space             0 []
gzip_window                15 []
http_gzip_support          on [bool]
http_max_hdr               64 [header lines]
http_range_support         on [bool]
http_req_hdr_len           8192 [bytes]
http_req_size              32768 [bytes]
http_resp_hdr_len          8192 [bytes]
http_resp_size             32768 [bytes]
listen_address             0.0.0.0:80
listen_depth               1024 [connections]
log_hashstring             on [bool]
log_local_address          off [bool]
lru_interval               2 [seconds]
max_esi_depth              5 [levels]
max_restarts               4 [restarts]
nuke_limit                 50 [allocations]
ping_interval              3 [seconds]
pipe_timeout               60 [seconds]
prefer_ipv6                off [bool]
queue_max                  100 [%]
rush_exponent              3 [requests per request]
saintmode_threshold        10 [objects]
send_timeout               60 [seconds]
sess_timeout               5 [seconds]
sess_workspace             65536 [bytes]
session_linger             50 [ms]
session_max                100000 [sessions]
shm_reclen                 255 [bytes]
shm_workspace              8192 [bytes]
shortlived                 10.000000 [s]
syslog_cli_traffic         on [bool]
thread_pool_add_delay      2 [milliseconds]
thread_pool_add_threshold  2 [requests]
thread_pool_fail_delay     200 [milliseconds]
thread_pool_max            2048 [threads]
thread_pool_min            1 [threads]
thread_pool_purge_delay    1000 [milliseconds]
thread_pool_stack          unlimited [bytes]
thread_pool_timeout        10 [seconds]
thread_pool_workspace      65536 [bytes]
thread_pools               2 [pools]
thread_stats_rate          10 [requests]
user                       nobody (65534)
vcc_err_unref              on [bool]
vcl_dir                    /etc/varnish
vcl_trace                  off [bool]
vmod_dir                   /usr/lib/varnish/vmods
waiter                     default (epoll, poll)
*
*
*Output of varnishstat -1:*

client_conn               1164         1.23 Client connections accepted
client_drop                  0         0.00 Connection dropped, no sess/wrk
client_req                1164         1.23 Client requests received
cache_hit                  524         0.56 Cache hits
cache_hitpass                0         0.00 Cache hits for pass
cache_miss                  98         0.10 Cache misses
backend_conn               546         0.58 Backend conn. success
backend_unhealthy            0         0.00 Backend conn. not attempted
backend_busy                 0         0.00 Backend conn. too many
backend_fail                 0         0.00 Backend conn. failures
backend_reuse               94         0.10 Backend conn. reuses
backend_toolate              3         0.00 Backend conn. was closed
backend_recycle             97         0.10 Backend conn. recycles
backend_retry                0         0.00 Backend conn. retry
fetch_head                   0         0.00 Fetch head
fetch_length               563         0.60 Fetch with Length
fetch_chunked               14         0.01 Fetch chunked
fetch_eof                    0         0.00 Fetch EOF
fetch_bad                    0         0.00 Fetch had bad headers
fetch_close                 43         0.05 Fetch wanted close
fetch_oldhttp                0         0.00 Fetch pre HTTP/1.1 closed
fetch_zero                   0         0.00 Fetch zero len
fetch_failed                 0         0.00 Fetch failed
fetch_1xx                    0         0.00 Fetch no body (1xx)
fetch_204                    0         0.00 Fetch no body (204)
fetch_304                   19         0.02 Fetch no body (304)
n_sess_mem                  17          .   N struct sess_mem
n_sess                       0          .   N struct sess
n_object                    69          .   N struct object
n_vampireobject              0          .   N unresurrected objects
n_objectcore                71          .   N struct objectcore
n_objecthead                71          .   N struct objecthead
n_waitinglist               24          .   N struct waitinglist
n_vbc                        0          .   N struct vbc
n_wrk                        2          .   N worker threads
n_wrk_create                24         0.03 N worker threads created
n_wrk_failed                 0         0.00 N worker threads not created
n_wrk_max                   33         0.03 N worker threads limited
n_wrk_lqueue                 0         0.00 work request queue length
n_wrk_queued               152         0.16 N queued work requests
n_wrk_drop                   0         0.00 N dropped work requests
n_backend                    1          .   N backends
n_expired                   29          .   N expired objects
n_lru_nuked                  0          .   N LRU nuked objects
n_lru_moved                458          .   N LRU moved objects
losthdr                      0         0.00 HTTP header overflows
n_objsendfile                0         0.00 Objects sent with sendfile
n_objwrite                1135         1.20 Objects sent with write
n_objoverflow                0         0.00 Objects overflowing workspace
s_sess                    1164         1.23 Total Sessions
s_req                     1164         1.23 Total Requests
s_pipe                       0         0.00 Total pipe
s_pass                     542         0.57 Total pass
s_fetch                    639         0.68 Total fetch
s_hdrbytes              437246       463.18 Total header bytes
s_bodybytes           14474608     15333.27 Total body bytes
sess_closed               1164         1.23 Session Closed
sess_pipeline                0         0.00 Session Pipeline
sess_readahead               0         0.00 Session Read Ahead
sess_linger                  0         0.00 Session Linger
sess_herd                    0         0.00 Session herd
shm_records              85020        90.06 SHM records
shm_writes                6648         7.04 SHM writes
shm_flushes                  0         0.00 SHM flushes due to overflow
shm_cont                     8         0.01 SHM MTX contention
shm_cycles                   0         0.00 SHM cycles through buffer
sms_nreq                     1         0.00 SMS allocator requests
sms_nobj                     0          .   SMS outstanding allocations
sms_nbytes                   0          .   SMS outstanding bytes
sms_balloc                 419          .   SMS bytes allocated
sms_bfree                  419          .   SMS bytes freed
backend_req                640         0.68 Backend requests made
n_vcl                        1         0.00 N vcl total
n_vcl_avail                  1         0.00 N vcl available
n_vcl_discard                0         0.00 N vcl discarded
n_ban                        1          .   N total active bans
n_ban_add                    1         0.00 N new bans added
n_ban_retire                 0         0.00 N old bans deleted
n_ban_obj_test               0         0.00 N objects tested
n_ban_re_test                0         0.00 N regexps tested against
n_ban_dups                   0         0.00 N duplicate bans removed
hcb_nolock                   0         0.00 HCB Lookups without lock
hcb_lock                     0         0.00 HCB Lookups with lock
hcb_insert                   0         0.00 HCB Inserts
esi_errors                   0         0.00 ESI parse errors (unlock)
esi_warnings                 0         0.00 ESI parse warnings (unlock)
accept_fail                  0         0.00 Accept failures
client_drop_late             0         0.00 Connection dropped late
uptime                     944         1.00 Client uptime
dir_dns_lookups              0         0.00 DNS director lookups
dir_dns_failed               0         0.00 DNS director failed lookups
dir_dns_hit                  0         0.00 DNS director cached lookups hit
dir_dns_cache_full           0         0.00 DNS director full dnscache
vmods                        0          .   Loaded VMODs
n_gzip                       0         0.00 Gzip operations
n_gunzip                   521         0.55 Gunzip operations
LCK.sms.creat                1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.sms.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.sms.locks                3         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.sms.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.smp.creat                0         0.00 Created locks
LCK.smp.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.smp.locks                0         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.smp.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.sma.creat                2         0.00 Created locks
LCK.sma.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.sma.locks             2922         3.10 Lock Operations
LCK.sma.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.smf.creat                0         0.00 Created locks
LCK.smf.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.smf.locks                0         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.smf.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.hsl.creat                0         0.00 Created locks
LCK.hsl.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.hsl.locks                0         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.hsl.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.hcb.creat                0         0.00 Created locks
LCK.hcb.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.hcb.locks                0         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.hcb.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.hcl.creat            16383        17.35 Created locks
LCK.hcl.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.hcl.locks             1175         1.24 Lock Operations
LCK.hcl.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.vcl.creat                1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.vcl.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.vcl.locks               48         0.05 Lock Operations
LCK.vcl.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.stat.creat               1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.stat.destroy             0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.stat.locks              17         0.02 Lock Operations
LCK.stat.colls               0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.sessmem.creat            1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.sessmem.destroy            0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.sessmem.locks           1270         1.35 Lock Operations
LCK.sessmem.colls              0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.wstat.creat                1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.wstat.destroy              0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.wstat.locks             2858         3.03 Lock Operations
LCK.wstat.colls                0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.herder.creat               1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.herder.destroy             0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.herder.locks             148         0.16 Lock Operations
LCK.herder.colls               0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.wq.creat                   2         0.00 Created locks
LCK.wq.destroy                 0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.wq.locks                4200         4.45 Lock Operations
LCK.wq.colls                   0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.objhdr.creat             119         0.13 Created locks
LCK.objhdr.destroy            48         0.05 Destroyed locks
LCK.objhdr.locks            1469         1.56 Lock Operations
LCK.objhdr.colls               0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.exp.creat                  1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.exp.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.exp.locks               1072         1.14 Lock Operations
LCK.exp.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.lru.creat                  2         0.00 Created locks
LCK.lru.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.lru.locks                 98         0.10 Lock Operations
LCK.lru.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.cli.creat                  1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.cli.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.cli.locks                327         0.35 Lock Operations
LCK.cli.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.ban.creat                  1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.ban.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.ban.locks               1073         1.14 Lock Operations
LCK.ban.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.vbp.creat                  1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.vbp.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.vbp.locks                  0         0.00 Lock Operations
LCK.vbp.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.vbe.creat                  1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.vbe.destroy                0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.vbe.locks               1092         1.16 Lock Operations
LCK.vbe.colls                  0         0.00 Collisions
LCK.backend.creat              1         0.00 Created locks
LCK.backend.destroy            0         0.00 Destroyed locks
LCK.backend.locks           1895         2.01 Lock Operations
LCK.backend.colls              0         0.00 Collisions
SMA.s0.c_req                 172         0.18 Allocator requests
SMA.s0.c_fail                  0         0.00 Allocator failures
SMA.s0.c_bytes           8694705      9210.49 Bytes allocated
SMA.s0.c_freed           6874254      7282.05 Bytes freed
SMA.s0.g_alloc               137          .   Allocations outstanding
SMA.s0.g_bytes           1820451          .   Bytes outstanding
SMA.s0.g_space        1071921373          .   Bytes available
SMA.Transient.c_req         1089         1.15 Allocator requests
SMA.Transient.c_fail           0         0.00 Allocator failures
SMA.Transient.c_bytes     64465868     68290.11 Bytes allocated
SMA.Transient.c_freed     64465868     68290.11 Bytes freed
SMA.Transient.g_alloc            0          .   Allocations outstanding
SMA.Transient.g_bytes            0          .   Bytes outstanding
SMA.Transient.g_space            0          .   Bytes available
VBE.default(127.0.0.1,,8081).vcls            1          .   VCL references
VBE.default(127.0.0.1,,8081).happy           0          .   Happy health
probes
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Thanks in advance.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Stig Bakken <stig at zedge.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Zachary Alex Stern <
> zacharyalexstern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> We have a lot of websites (perhaps 15-20) running on apache, behind a
>> varnish cache.
>>
>> One of our sites seems to experience random slowdowns when varnish is
>> enabled. It will take between 5-20 seconds to load, fairly frequently. Our
>> other sites all seem unaffected.
>>
>> When I disable varnish and have apache listen on port 80, the problem
>> disappears entirely.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Here's our vcl.conf if it helps: http://pastebin.com/XPUvSPeu
>>
>
> For this kind of problem, it is very useful if you post the output of
> "varnishadm param.show" and "varnishstat -1" as well.
>
>  - Stig
>
>
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