memory issue when running varnishncsa

[Zheng Liu]

Per,

Thanks for the info. I remember I was seeing the ram usage by varnishncsa
did not change a lot. I didn't take any screen shot, so I may remember
wrong. Let me try it one more time and see what happened. Could it be the
log dumping to disk can't keep up with the insertion rate, so varnish has
to allocate more for the in-memory logging? Just a guess.

thanks,
Zheng

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Zheng Liu <huozhe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to use varnishncsa to generate log on disk, so I can have another
>> daemon tail and analyze it. However, when I enable it, I see varnishd
>> starts to use more and more memory. I am using varnish-3.0.3 on Ubuntu
>> 11.10. The box has 190G and I configured varnish to use 160G. Its footprint
>> has been stable at 180G for months. Then after I started varnishncsa,
>> within 5 hours, all the memory was gone and it starts to use swap. I wonder
>> if this is expected behavior, and we are suppose to allow more head room
>> during logging with varnishncsa?
>>
>
> There have been some reports of a varnishleak in varnishncsa - but in the
> cases I've seen it's varnishncsa  itself which balloons up. Would that be
> the case here aswell?
>
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