Threads in 4.0

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM, James Harrison
<james at talkunafraid.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I migrated a site dealing with a quite simple Varnish config
> (basically caching images and static content, passing through dynamic
> requests with no modifications etc) last week. Since then I've had to
> restart varnish twice due to what looks like a thread pool leak.
>
> Varnish is configured with a max thread count of 1000 - the other
> thread options are defaults. With all defaults the problem still
> occurs. This is a Debian Wheezy system using the Varnish packages (ie
> not system packages).
>
> varnishstat shows MAIN.threads as 500 and has ~7.5k, 8k for
> created/destroyed (11 for limited). Varnish has served a TB of content
> since restart a day ago in this state.
>
> `ps auxH | grep varnish | wc -l` shows varnish has 7508
> threads/processes running.
>
> This graph shows the rapid increase in running threads - I restarted
> varnish with the lower pool limit at the end of the 13th:
> https://i.imgur.com/488IT7z.png
>
> Any ideas?

Hi,

I remember this:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-commit/2014-May/011395.html

Dridi

> --
> Cheers,
> James
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