Swapping & High Load

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

Doesn't worker threads also use memory for both their call stacks and
workspace ?
I believe this is not part of the storage, as well as the "naked" memory
footprint of varnishd.

Best Regards,
Dridi

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com>wrote:

> I'm seeing something higher like 5k per.
>
> 6g malloc.
> 600k objects cached right now
> varnish has 9.7 gigs of memory resident
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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com>wrote:
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>>> Does Varnish need additional memory beyond what is allocated via malloc?
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>> Yes. Malloc is only the backend storage. In addition there are a few data
>> structures that are global. If I recall correctly the overhead is more or
>> less 1k per object.
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