Question regarding Varnish memory usage

[Lasse Karstensen]

[reviewing old emails]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 01:03:07PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
> I have some questions regarding Varnish 4 and some problems we have with
> it's memory usage.

There is an issue in Varnish 4.0 that chunked backend responses lead to
higher stevedore memory fragmentation, which is probably what you are
seeing.

I suggest you reduce the fetch_chunksize parameter to something that
most of your objects fit in, and see if that helps. The default is
128KB.


-- 
Lasse Karstensen
Varnish Software AS