varnishstat and memory usage

[Lasse Karstensen]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Marco Felettigh wrote:
> can someone explain please what this values mean ?

g means gauge, c means counter.

s0 means that this is the first configured storage backend. (for example one -smalloc,XX argument)

> varnish-3.0.2
> from varnishstat -1 :
> SMA.s0.c_bytes   4421961276     14330.40 Bytes allocated
> Bytes allocated from Varnish for all the things;
> cache , thread etc . Right ?
> SMA.s0.c_freed   3336892882     10813.98 Bytes freed
> freed ? that means that in the uptime of my Varnish instance it freed
> 3,3GB of bytes from the cache ?

Yes. Usually you don't need to care about these.

> So this counter can go beyond Bytes allocated ?
> SMA.s0.g_bytes   1085068394          .   Bytes outstanding
> These are the bytes used by cache ?

Yes.

If you want to graph storage use, have a look at the munin plugin for Varnish.

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With regards,
Lasse Karstensen
Varnish Software AS