Swap flushes all objects in cache

Lasse Karstensen lkarsten at varnish-software.com
Tue Nov 18 11:37:45 CET 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:05:22PM -0000, Anand Shah wrote:
> Hello,When Linux pages outs data to disk; it destroys all cached
> objects which is contrary to the architecture published by PHK.When
> physical memory becomes scarce the Linux memory management subsystem
> must attempt to free physical pages.
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Hi.

Please consider adding line feeds to your future emails, everything on
one line is very hard to read.

Based on the attached graphs I'd expect this to be caused by Varnish
asserting/crashing, or that the operating system's out-of-memory
handling killed off the process.

More information on Varnish troubleshooting:

    https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/users-guide/troubleshooting.html


-- 
Lasse Karstensen
Varnish Software AS



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