Varnish 4 Performance Issues

Junaid Mukhtar junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 14:57:31 UTC 2018


This is what we get in varnishhist

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|1e-6                 |1e-5                 |1e-4
|1e-3                 |1e-2                 |1e-1
|1e0                  |1e1                  |1e2
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Regards,
Junaid


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:54 PM Junaid Mukhtar <junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Below is the output; all of them are default except i was trying to up the
> threads_pool to 4 but didn't feel any imporvement in performance degradation
>
> accept_filter              off [bool] (default)
> acceptor_sleep_decay       0.9 (default)
> acceptor_sleep_incr        0.000 [seconds] (default)
> acceptor_sleep_max         0.050 [seconds] (default)
> auto_restart               on [bool] (default)
> backend_idle_timeout       60.000 [seconds] (default)
> ban_dups                   on [bool] (default)
> ban_lurker_age             60.000 [seconds] (default)
> ban_lurker_batch           1000 (default)
> ban_lurker_sleep           0.010 [seconds] (default)
> between_bytes_timeout      60.000 [seconds] (default)
> cc_command                 "exec gcc -std=gnu99  -O2 -g
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Wall -Werror -pthread -fpic -shared -Wl,-x -o %o
> %s" (default)
> cli_buffer                 8k [bytes] (default)
> cli_limit                  48k [bytes] (default)
> cli_timeout                60.000 [seconds] (default)
> clock_skew                 10 [seconds] (default)
> clock_step                 1.000 [seconds] (default)
> connect_timeout            3.500 [seconds] (default)
> critbit_cooloff            180.000 [seconds] (default)
> debug                      none (default)
> default_grace              10.000 [seconds] (default)
> default_keep               0.000 [seconds] (default)
> default_ttl                120.000 [seconds] (default)
> feature                    none (default)
> fetch_chunksize            16k [bytes] (default)
> fetch_maxchunksize         0.25G [bytes] (default)
> first_byte_timeout         60.000 [seconds] (default)
> gzip_buffer                32k [bytes] (default)
> gzip_level                 6 (default)
> gzip_memlevel              8 (default)
> http_gzip_support          on [bool] (default)
> http_max_hdr               64 [header lines] (default)
> http_range_support         on [bool] (default)
> http_req_hdr_len           8k [bytes] (default)
> http_req_size              32k [bytes] (default)
> http_resp_hdr_len          8k [bytes] (default)
> http_resp_size             32k [bytes] (default)
> idle_send_timeout          60.000 [seconds] (default)
> listen_depth               1024 [connections] (default)
> lru_interval               2.000 [seconds] (default)
> max_esi_depth              5 [levels] (default)
> max_restarts               4 [restarts] (default)
> max_retries                4 [retries] (default)
> nuke_limit                 50 [allocations] (default)
> pcre_match_limit           10000 (default)
> pcre_match_limit_recursion 20 (default)
> ping_interval              3 [seconds] (default)
> pipe_timeout               60.000 [seconds] (default)
> pool_req                   10,100,10 (default)
> pool_sess                  10,100,10 (default)
> pool_vbo                   10,100,10 (default)
> prefer_ipv6                off [bool] (default)
> rush_exponent              3 [requests per request] (default)
> send_timeout               600.000 [seconds] (default)
> session_max                100000 [sessions] (default)
> shm_reclen                 255b [bytes] (default)
> shortlived                 10.000 [seconds] (default)
> sigsegv_handler            on [bool] (default)
> syslog_cli_traffic         on [bool] (default)
> tcp_fastopen               off [bool] (default)
> tcp_keepalive_intvl        75.000 [seconds] (default)
> tcp_keepalive_probes       9 [probes] (default)
> tcp_keepalive_time         7200.000 [seconds] (default)
> thread_pool_add_delay      0.000 [seconds] (default)
> thread_pool_destroy_delay  1.000 [seconds] (default)
> thread_pool_fail_delay     0.200 [seconds] (default)
> thread_pool_max            5000 [threads] (default)
> thread_pool_min            100 [threads] (default)
> thread_pool_reserve        0 [threads] (default)
> thread_pool_stack          48k [bytes] (default)
> thread_pool_timeout        300.000 [seconds] (default)
> thread_pools               2 [pools] (default)
> thread_queue_limit         20 (default)
> thread_stats_rate          10 [requests] (default)
> timeout_idle               5.000 [seconds] (default)
> timeout_linger             0.050 [seconds] (default)
> vcc_allow_inline_c         off [bool] (default)
> vcc_err_unref              on [bool] (default)
> vcc_unsafe_path            on [bool] (default)
> vcl_cooldown               600.000 [seconds] (default)
> vcl_dir                    /etc/varnish (default)
> vmod_dir                   /usr/lib64/varnish/vmods (default)
> vsl_buffer                 4k [bytes] (default)
> vsl_mask                   -VCL_trace,-WorkThread,-Hash,-VfpAcct (default)
> vsl_reclen                 255b [bytes] (default)
> vsl_space                  80M [bytes] (default)
> vsm_free_cooldown          60.000 [seconds] (default)
> vsm_space                  1M [bytes] (default)
> workspace_backend          64k [bytes] (default)
> workspace_client           64k [bytes] (default)
> workspace_session          0.50k [bytes] (default)
> workspace_thread           2k [bytes] (default)
>
>
> --------
> Regards,
> Junaid
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:37 PM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi at varni.sh> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM Junaid Mukhtar <junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > we are in middle of upgrading from varnish 3.0.7 to varnish 4.1.10; but
>> unfortunately all of the response times in the performance test are
>> indicating an increase of at least 100%
>> >
>> > We have analyzed the logs and everything but can't get around this; the
>> issue is not only for the non-cached pages but it's also impacting the
>> cached pages. We are also struggling to analyze it further as well, any
>> guidenace as to what we can do in terms of putting debug logging in would
>> be helpful.
>> >
>> > One of the areas we are considering is to output response times, but
>> it's proving difficult for me. Any suggestions
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the output of `varnishadm param.show` ?
>>
>> Dridi
>>
>
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