OOM caused by infinite loop in response

[Baptiste]

Hi,

Can't you simply tells Varnish to return a void response when users
hit this URL?
Hopefully you know in advance which URLs are buggy....

cheers

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Delacroix, Gauthier
<Gauthier.Delacroix at coreye.fr> wrote:
> It’s coming from the backend.
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> Varnish cannot cache the response since it never ends.
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> De : Nick Tailor [mailto:nick.tailor at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 20 septembre 2012 12:35
> À : Delacroix, Gauthier
> Objet : Re: OOM caused by infinite loop in response
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> If it's coming from the cache set the ttl higher for objects cached so it
> serves cached content that you know is working until u fix the issue
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:40 AM, "Delacroix, Gauthier"
> <Gauthier.Delacroix at coreye.fr> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have a varnish instance going out of memory because of an infinite loop in
> a chunked backend response.
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> The app is sending the same string over and over, resulting in more than 4GB
> to varnish in 10 minutes…until it crashes.
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> The dev team is fixing the bug in the backend app but I’d like to avoid
> varnish crashes for this kind of problem.
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> I have seen the “http_resp_size" option in the doc but it seems to only
> handle headers size and I haven’t seen anything about response body limit.
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> Is there a way to drop connection when response body exceeds a maximum size
> ?
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> Thanks !
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>
> Gauthier
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