Varnish memory usage

[Andreas Plesner Jacobsen]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 03:50:56PM +0000, Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote:
> >
> > Same rules apply for transient as for any other malloc store: TTL, LRU or
> > ban/purge.
> 
> Will Varnish keep multiple generations of objects that expire, and
> potentially wait with LRU eviction until it gets closer to the known
> sensible maximum memory allocation (the host has 128GB RAM)?

Sorry, forgot this part: No, Transient is unbounded unless you configure it
otherwise. It should really only be used for short-lived objects.

In your case, I would stick these small objects in a store I controlled the
parameters of (beresp.storage)

-- 
Andreas