varnish consuming too much memory?

[Jodok Batlogg]

On 12.03.2008, at 19:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

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>> i'm wondering how varnish determines how much memory it should
>> consume...
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> It uses all memory it can for caching.

- is there a way to limit it?
i'd like to assign the 4 varnishes running on this box 3 GB each and  
leave 4GB for linux disk/nfs cache

- what effect has the size of the VARNISH_STORAGE_SIZE?
is this cache persistent? when are objects moved from memory to disk?

thanks

jodok

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