Varnish malloc issue

[Guillaume Quintard]

Hi Viktor,

Have a look here
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/storage-backends.html#transient-storage

Sujith, please try to use a packaged version from your distribution.

-- 
Guillaume Quintard

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Viktor Villafuerte <
viktor.villafuerte at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Guillaume,
>
> On Thu 01 Sep 2016 09:53:22, Guillaume Quintard wrote:
> > Is that virtual or real memory?
> > Try to cap your Transient storage to 1GB, you may be overloaded with
> short
> > lived objects.
>
> Could you elaborate on this bit more? I've got very similar problem
> here. Eg: Total memory 384g
>
> VIRT: 487g
> RES:  311g
>
> free says: 46g free
>
> but SWAP is 91.3% used :(
>
>
> How can this be?
>
>
> thanks
>
> v
>
>
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2016 9:40 AM, "sujith pv" <sujithnss at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I had already mailed this query long back but this time putting in a
> > > different manner.
> > >
> > >
> > >    - We are using Varnish 4.0 in our end. We have a machine with memory
> > >    of 16G with 8G being malloc for Varnish. We have a TTL for 2 hrs as
> well.
> > >    - During our peak traffic, when we see the total memory of the
> machine
> > >    reaching 90% and like varnishd process is taking some 89% .
> > >    - So I'm just confused even though we had allocated just 8G malloc
> > >    which is like 50% of the total memory, how the process is eating up
> 89% of
> > >    memory and the memory is not releasing even after TTL.
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help please...
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Sujith P V
> > >
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> --
> Regards
>
> Viktor Villafuerte
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