Varnish 3 - thread_pools

[Lasse Karstensen]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:44:59AM -0300, lnsano at bol.com.br wrote:
> By the book, the thread_pools should be 2. However the server is multi-processed(8 cpus) and can handle more thread_pools.
> This server handles more than 5000 requests/sec. So, I found the thread_pool_max should be around 1000 and up to 5000.
> Is it a good ideia increasing the thread_pools to 8 and decreasing the thread_pool_max?

No.

Keep thread_pools at 2.

> Or, what's the best config for a server with 8 cpus and 32GB ram.

Start out with 1 thread per concurrent connection.

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With regards,
Lasse Karstensen
Varnish Software AS