varnish consuming too much memory?

[Jodok Batlogg]

On 13.03.2008, at 22:45, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <7FC400FB-7BB0-4979-81DE-7EE538AED27A at lovelysystems.com>,  
> Jodok Batl
> ogg writes:
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>> or is it really true that i need dedicated boxes for caching only?
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> If your operating system has a VM system worth its salt, no.

so you mean - in case the box is busy accessing objects from cache  
memory and busy accessing some items from varnish cache and another  
application is busy and accesses some other objects from memory  
frequently my 2.6 linux kernel is intelligent enough to decide what to  
keep in memory and what to put to swap.
that would be great :)

what is varnish's disk file exactly for? is varnish using "real"  
memory only and "swapping" to its own file?

thanks

jodok

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