Few questions regarding varnish with FreeBSD

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAEJj9Cw0X2A2s=oAA_0MN9h4TYH14qYBUJPKE8CBdc5dR80MQA at mail.gmail.com>, "Nicole H." writes:

>1) Is it better to use malloc or to create a memory disk?

Malloc is better.

>2) Any idea why a FreeBSD server running varnish takes forever to shutdown
>or restart if rebooted?
> When performing say a shutdown -r now / -h now  The system will stay at
>"All Buffers Synced"  once I let it run and it took an hour to finally
>reach Uptime: TIME / The operating system has halted.(for -h)

Interesting, havn't seen that one before.

What happens if you run the "sync" command before shutdown ?

>3)  I have a cache server with 3 disks 135 gigs ea and 4 Gigs ram. The
>disks are only 8G full ea.
> Why would my n_lru_nuked (381451 ) be so high?

If this is a 32bit system, you are limited by the 32bit address space
and Varnish can probably only get about 3GB of address space for caching.


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