Persistent Storage

[Erik Steigler]

I was wondering if there's a time line for when persistent storage will 
be available. Right now I'm considering running squid with a disk based 
cache which will query the origin servers and having varnish in front of 
that since squid is unable to handle our load it seems. (And Varnish 
makes a whole lot more sense to me)

Also on some test instances I get error messages such as these:
Dec  2 08:37:00 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (138) not responding to 
ping, killing it.
Dec  2 08:37:00 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: child (8721) Started
Dec  2 08:37:01 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) said Closed fds: 4 5 
6 7 11 12 14 15
Dec  2 08:37:01 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) said Child starts
Dec  2 08:37:01 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) said managed to mmap 
10737418240 bytes of 10737418240
Dec  2 08:37:01 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) said Ready
Dec  2 14:25:15 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) not responding to 
ping, killing it.
Dec  2 09:25:17 ip-2 kernel: pid 8721 (varnishd), uid 65534: exited on 
signal 3
Dec  2 14:25:17 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (8721) not responding to 
ping, killing it.
Dec  2 14:25:17 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: child (26870) Started
Dec  2 14:25:18 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (26870) said Closed fds: 4 5 
6 7 11 12 14 15
Dec  2 14:25:18 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (26870) said Child starts
Dec  2 14:25:18 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (26870) said managed to mmap 
10737418240 bytes of 10737418240
Dec  2 14:25:18 ip-2 varnishd[76185]: Child (26870) said Ready

Is that indicative of a problem or should I just up the timeout value 
for pings? This is using either revision 3459 or 2.0.2 out of ports on 
FreeBSD 6.3. I'm going to be trying another test on FreeBSD 7.0 with 
either 2.0.2 or the latest checkout.

Thanks