varnish consuming too much memory?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <33CD53F7-74C0-447C-8E0C-8F40365B7D7D at lovelysystems.com>, Jodok Batl
ogg writes:

>>> i'm wondering how varnish determines how much memory it should
>>> consume...
>>
>> It uses all memory it can for caching.
>
>- is there a way to limit it?

no.

>i'd like to assign the 4 varnishes running on this box 3 GB each and  
>leave 4GB for linux disk/nfs cache

Why are you running multiple varnishes on the same box ?

>- what effect has the size of the VARNISH_STORAGE_SIZE?

That sets the size of the file varnish maps for storage, and in a sort
of way limits the amount of memory varnish can use, but also severely
limits your hit-rate when it runs full.

>is this cache persistent? when are objects moved from memory to disk?

No.

Whenever the kernel VM subsystem decide it should happen.

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