cache empties itself?

[DHF]

Sascha Ottolski wrote:
> however, my main problem is currently that the varnish childs keep 
> restarting, and that this empties the cache, which effectively renders 
> the whole setup useless for me :-( if the cache has filled up, it works 
> great, if it restarts empty, obviously it doesn't.
>
> is there anything I can do to prevent such restarts?
>   
Varnish doesn't just restart on its own.  Check to make sure you aren't
sending a kill signal if you are running logrotate through a cronjob. 
I'm not sure if a HUP will empty the cache or not. 

--Dave