varnish stops responding with apache keepalive On

[ced]

Varnish stops responding after a few seconds when Keepalive is set on apache.

Varnish launched with : /usr/local/varnish/sbin/varnishd -a '0.0.0.0:80' -b'127.0.0.1:8080' -T 127.0.0.1:1664 -sfile,/tmp/varnish,1g -t 0

uname : Linux php10 2.6.12-10-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 15 16:47:57 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Trying to do a lynx -dump  http://127.0.0.1:80 (to varnish) is just stuck

Trying to do a lynx -dump  http://127.0.0.1:8080 (to the backend) is working very fast, apache status shows almost no connection from varnish.

Removing keepalive makes varnish work again (with no restart of varnishd)

Here is a sample log when the problem occured :

    0 ExpKill        1452272424 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272490 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272447 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272504 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272533 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272412 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272462 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272515 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272465 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272430 -1
    0 WorkThread     0x6cafc1a0 end
    0 ExpKill        1452272616 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272603 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272556 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272643 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452272554 -1
    0 ExpKill        1452360874 -48
    0 ExpKill        1452360900 -30
    0 ExpPick        1452272387
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272335
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272345
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272381
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272219
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272354
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452272301
    0 VCL_call       timeout
    0 VCL_return     discard
    0 ExpPick        1452360878

[des]

This is believed to have been fixed, but needs testing.

[nkinkade]

I'm still seeing this problem. On a page that contains multiple items such as images, stylesheets, javascript, etc ... each item will delay 15 seconds in loading. 15 seconds is the default KeepAliveTimeout? in Apache2, at least in Debian Etch. When I set KeepAlive? to Off, the problem goes away.

# varnishd -V varnishd (varnish-1.1.1)

I built/installed this as a Debian package from sources I downloaded from Trac just a couple weeks ago.

Des mentions that this is believed to have been fixed in a post of about a month ago ... was the believed fix included in the 1.1.1 release?

Thanks!

Nate

[petter]

Is this ticket still valid with the current -trunk version?

[phk]

Timing this one out due to lack of response.