memory issue when running varnishncsa

[nick tailor]

Did you do any OS updates?

Cheers

Nick Tailor

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Zheng Liu <huozhe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to use varnishncsa to generate log on disk, so I can have another
>> daemon tail and analyze it. However, when I enable it, I see varnishd
>> starts to use more and more memory. I am using varnish-3.0.3 on Ubuntu
>> 11.10. The box has 190G and I configured varnish to use 160G. Its footprint
>> has been stable at 180G for months. Then after I started varnishncsa,
>> within 5 hours, all the memory was gone and it starts to use swap. I wonder
>> if this is expected behavior, and we are suppose to allow more head room
>> during logging with varnishncsa?
>>
>
> There have been some reports of a varnishleak in varnishncsa - but in the
> cases I've seen it's varnishncsa  itself which balloons up. Would that be
> the case here aswell?
>
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