[Varnish] #546: Varnish eating up my memory

[Varnish]

#546: Varnish eating up my memory
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 Reporter:  hp197     |        Owner:  phk                
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal    |    Milestone:  Varnish 2.1 release
Component:  varnishd  |      Version:  trunk              
 Severity:  normal    |   Resolution:                     
 Keywords:            |  
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Comment (by hp197):

 Thank you for the reply.

 I was a bit supprised it used 1.5GB while the storage is file based. The
 reason i uponed up this ticket was because varnish used 5.8GB shared mem,
 while the storage was 2G malloc. The instance from yesterday is a
 different one. But if varnish itself uses a lot shared memory for
 stack/thread allocations, it is explainable why it uses so much (its not
 the malloc who is using so much memory, but rather varnish itself).

 ulimit is a option to use, although i think its a dirty one.

 Its nice to hear varnish is capable of dealing with much more traffic.

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Ticket URL: <http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/546#comment:17>
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