Varnish 3.0.5 memory leak?

Nils Goroll slink at schokola.de
Mon Jun 2 16:47:28 CEST 2014



On 02/06/14 15:04, Louis-Philippe Gauthier wrote:
> 
> In the graph bellow you can see that the memory kept growing even after the
> malloc memory (12G) was full. I understand that there's a 1K overhead per object
> and that Varnish will use more then 12G, but it keeps growing even after the
> object space is full (now at 43.4G).

Actually this only accounts for the actual net overhead, but in practice there
may be a substantial gross overhead in the order of a factor of 2x-3x due to
fragmentation, depending on things like implementation details of the malloc you
are using and the variations of object sizes.

Nils



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