Adjusting the parents watchdog timer

[Dave Cheney]

Thanks for the tip Andres. I've pushed the ping timeout up to 15  
seconds to see what that will turn up (looking for evidence of the  
machines swapping like crazy or the loadavg shooting through the roof).

Cheers

Dave

On 25/02/2008, at 9:46 PM, Anders Nordby wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes. Just set ping_interval to a higher number than 3 (default  
> number of
> seconds), or to 0 if you want to disable it completely. If you start
> Varnish with the -T option, you can telnet to the management interface
> and see which variables you can poke.
>
> -A.
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +1100, Dave Cheney wrote:
>> 	I am experiencing child restarts every 8 to 24 hours due to the  
>> child
>> failing to respond to the parents ping. Is it possible to extend the
>> ping timeout from the parent to try to avoid this behavior? The cache
>> in question sits behind a load balancer so if the child is not
>> restarted the load balancer will shift to the other host.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Dave
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>
> -- 
> Anders.