sendfile() and Varnish2.0.2

[Paras Fadte]

Hi Poul,

Can you please shed some light on the mail that I had sent regarding
varnish performance  ? In the same mail I have attached a mrtg graph
of CPU utilisation which is very spiky.

Thank you.

-Paras



On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <75cf5800812030153h762711f3q1ff2b31819970d70 at mail.gmail.com>, "Paras
>  Fadte" writes:
>>Hi Poul,
>>
>>Thanks for the response. So  "thread_pools" parameter should be
>>increased or the "thread_pool_max" or both should be increased ?
>>
>>Currently I have "thread_pools" as 4 and "thread_pool_max" as 750
>
> You should only increase thread_pools if you have performance
> problems due to lock-contention.
>
> You should only increas thread_pool_max if you regularly have
> bursts of dropped sessions.
>
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