Varnich Memory in 90% holding continously

sujith pv sujithnss at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 13:12:04 CEST 2016


Hi

I have used the below command

*ps -eo pmem,pcpu,vsize,pid,cmd | sort -k 1 -nr | head -5*

And I have got the below output. Also I have a monitoring tool UIM which
also states still memory is holding up at 90% eventhough Varnish server is
literally idle

90.9  0.1 17561316 12953 /u01/varnishapp/sbin/varnishd -P
/u01/varnishapp/varnish_pid.pid -a :15001 -f
/u01/varnishapp/etc/default.vcl -T 127.0.0.1:6082 -t 7200 -p
thread_pool_min=50 -p thread_pool_max=1000 -p thread_pool_timeout=120 -u
svc_varnishghs -g admin_uktil09_onlineservices_varnishghs -S
/u01/varnishapp/etc/secret -s malloc,8G
 0.5  0.3 100840 29277 bin/varnishlog
 0.5  0.0 114156 12949 /u01/varnishapp/sbin/varnishd -P
/u01/varnishapp/varnish_pid.pid -a :15001 -f
/u01/varnishapp/etc/default.vcl -T 127.0.0.1:6082 -t 7200 -p
thread_pool_min=50 -p thread_pool_max=1000 -p thread_pool_timeout=120 -u
svc_varnishghs -g admin_uktil09_onlineservices_varnishghs -S
/u01/varnishapp/etc/secret -s malloc,8G
 0.2  0.1 282492 26519 splunkd -p 8089 start
%MEM %CPU    VSZ   PID CMD



On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Andreas Plesner <apj at mutt.dk> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:33:14PM +0530, sujith pv wrote:
> >
> > I measured it using the linux command to get the highly utilized
> processes
> > info. So that time it was 30% of memory.
>
> If you're talking about the VIRT column in "top", that is not a measure of
> real memory usage, and I'm going to assume that there really is no issue.
>
> If not, ask again, but be specific about which numbers you have measured,
> and
> what the 30% and 90% numbers are derived from.
>
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> Andreas
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