Bug? Barage of hits leads to failure creating worker threads / stats tracking

[Ray Barnes]

Thanks for the reply, answers inline:

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM, John Adams <jna at twitter.com> wrote:

> Something's very wrong here - we've never experienced this before.
> Are you stating the server as root or as another user?
>

As root.


>  Any ulimit or restrictions on # of file descriptors?
>

I'm manually setting ulimit in the script that starts varnishd, like so:

ulimit -n 131072
ulimit -l 82000
Other than that, and having manually set /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 65535, all
other settings are default according to RHEL 5 and Linux 2.6.18 with Xen
patches and backports maintained by xen.org (the aforementioned results were
all obtained by running varnish under domain 0).  I tried this on another
box which is RHEL 4.6 with 2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp (so no Xen in this case), and
/proc/sys/fs/file-max set to 49984 (using the same script to launch varnish
as aforementioned), the result was relatively the same:

         290  N worker threads
         290  N worker threads created
        8705  N worker threads not created
      409188  N worker threads limited
HTH.

-Ray
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