<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>For the file storage or for the shmlog?</div><div><br></div><div>When do you start nuking/expiring from disk? I suspect the load goes up when you run out of storage space?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Artur</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Cloude Porteus wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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> _______________________________________________<br>varnish-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:varnish-dev@projects.linpro.no">varnish-dev@projects.linpro.no</a><br>http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-dev<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>