Dramatic memory use increase on varnish upgrade

[Stephen Weeks]

On Jan 4, 2016 6:24 PM, "Mark Felder" <feld at feld.me> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016, at 19:16, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> > We have several varnishd instances that have been running fine for
> > years at constant memory use.  We've recently decided to upgrade our
> > linux distribution.  After some troubleshooting, we were unable to
> > find a configuration of Varnish on the new distro version that did not
> > have dramatically higher memory usage.
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> I suspect Linux kernel's memory management changes are your problem, not
> Varnish.
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> What is the version of the kernel on the instances that work well for
> you?

The instances with constant memory use are on Linux 3.2. All the
misbehaving instances have been on Linux 3.19.

Any ideas how to mitigate this or any Linux kernel configuration I could
change? Any ideas what kernel behavior changes could be responsible for
this?
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