Has anyone experienced very high server load averages? We're running varnish on a dual core with 8gb of ram. It runs okay for a day or two and then I start seeing load averages in 6-10 range for an hour or so, drops down to 2-3, then goes back up.<br>
<br>This starts to happen once we have more items in the cache than our physical memory. Maybe increasing our lru_interval will help? It's currently set to 3600.<br><br>Right now we're running with a 50gb file storage option. There are 270k objects in the cache, 70gb virtual memory, 6.2gb of res memory used, 11gb of data on disk in the file storage. We have a 98% hit ratio.<br>
<br>We followed Artur's advice about setting a tmpfs and creating an ext2 partition for our file storage.<br><br>I also tried running with malloc as our storage type, but I had to set it at a little less than half of our physical ram in order for it to work well after the cache got full. I don't understand why the virtual memory is double when I am running in malloc mode. I was running it with 5gb and the virtual memory was about 10-12gb and once it got full it started using the swap memory.<br>
<br>Thanks for any help/insight.<br><br>best,<br>cloude<br>-- <br>VP of Product Development<br>Instructables.com<br><br><a href="http://www.instructables.com/member/lebowski">http://www.instructables.com/member/lebowski</a><br>