save cache on exit?

Luke Macpherson varnish at lukem.org
Wed Dec 5 04:33:07 CET 2007


If it has segfaulted, you'd have no guarantee it was in a consistent
state, and so reusing the mmap-ed file would be a bad idea.

On 12/5/07, Corin Langosch <corinl at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>  The problem is that varnishd segfaults from time to time. It then has to
> grep all GBs from the backends again. For a hot restart this might be good
> to have too (after server upgrade, server failure, ..).
>
>  Stig Sandbeck Mathisen schrieb:
>  Corin Langosch <corinl at gmx.de> writes:
>
>
>
>  How can I tell varnish to save the cached data to disk at shutdown?
>
>  That is not possible.
>
> However, you can reconfigure Varnish at runtime, so there should be
> little reason to shutdown a varnish process once it is in production.
>
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