flushing cache doesn't seem to make varnish know about less

[Sascha Ottolski]

Am Montag 12 Januar 2009 05:35:16 schrieb Timothy Ball:
> a programming error caused varnish to think there were billions of
> pages it had to know about. bug is quashed but varnish doesn't seem
> to know
>
> # this is a line from top
>  3596  0.2 28.3g  28g 3808  256  57m 1916   12    0 S  20   0    0
> varnishd # this is a line from ps auxwww
> nobody    3596  0.1  0.1 29681936 3968 ?       Sl   04:24   0:00
> /opt/varnish/sbin/varnishd -a 10.13.37.1:80 -h classic -f
> /etc/varnish/default.vcl -T 127.0.0.1:6082 -t 120 -w 1,500,20
>
> i tried doing url.purge ".*" and url.purge "." to no avail.
>
> how do i make this thing forget?
>
> --timball

why not just restarting? it's so quick that it shouldn't hurt your 
service very much.


Cheers, Sascha