varnish 2.0.6 and nuked objects

[Stefan Pommerening]

Hi all,

I am running varnish 2.0.6 in a production environment without any 
serious problems.

What makes me curious is the absence of any cache size configuration 
("-s") and I am also noticing a signficant number of nuked objects 
although overall memory usage is really low.
Determining the process memory using "pmap" shows a reasonable small 
amount of memory used for caching but a large amount of memory used for 
the configured 2000 worker threads.

Because I have still a lot of RAM unused I am thinking about using a "-s 
malloc,2G" for the startup configuration but I am unsure whether this 
might help getting rid of the nuked objects counter. As I understood 
varnish let the memory utilization up to the operating system, so it 
might not get any memory problems as there are only about 1/4 of the 
main memory used (uptime several weeks, ~300 req/sec).

I cannot find any documentation on what varnish does if no cache memory 
is configured (no "-s" option).
On the other hand I heard about a bug in 2.0.x varnish which has 
something to do with memory allocation causing nuked objects every now 
and then. Maybe it has something to do with this?

I upgrading really a good idea? Or what else might have caused the nuked 
objects?

Regards,
Stefan