Varnish restarting sporadically... losing entire cache...

[Caunter, Stefan]

Check dmesg too, child is probably dying. Problem with persistent I
found, I had to go back to file.

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-----Original Message-----
From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org
[mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Ben Nowacky
Sent: June-24-10 1:51 PM
To: Flavio Torres
Cc: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: Varnish restarting sporadically... losing entire cache...

Thanks Flavio! Here's the errors that I see in the /var/log/messages...
Is this what you were seeing? 

Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22165) Panic message:
Assert error in SMP_FreeObj(), storage_persistent.c line 802:
Condition(sg->nfixed > 0) not true. thread = (cache-timeout) ident =
Linux,2.6.18-128.4.1.el5PAE,i686,-spersistent,-hclassic,epoll Backtrace:
0x806ca7c: pan_ic+cc   0x808851e: SMP_FreeObj+13e   0x8064b5f:
HSH_Deref+21f   0x80618d1: exp_timer+321   0x806f1fd: wrk_bgthread+cd
0x44249b: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x44249b]   0x39942e:
/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0x39942e]  
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: child (22984) Started
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said 
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Child starts
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Dropped 0
segments to make free_reserve
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Silo
completely loaded
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Flavio Torres wrote: