Varnish shutting down under heavy load

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

I've seen the automatic restart of the worker process fail here
during my testing, and I suspect you hit the same thing.

I have it on my list of things to investigate RSN.

Do you have any corefiles from varnishd by any chance ?

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