Varnish malloc issue

Guillaume Quintard guillaume at varnish-software.com
Thu Sep 1 09:53:22 CEST 2016


Is that virtual or real memory?
Try to cap your Transient storage to 1GB, you may be overloaded with short
lived objects.

On Sep 1, 2016 9:40 AM, "sujith pv" <sujithnss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I had already mailed this query long back but this time putting in a
> different manner.
>
>
>    - We are using Varnish 4.0 in our end. We have a machine with memory
>    of 16G with 8G being malloc for Varnish. We have a TTL for 2 hrs as well.
>    - During our peak traffic, when we see the total memory of the machine
>    reaching 90% and like varnishd process is taking some 89% .
>    - So I'm just confused even though we had allocated just 8G malloc
>    which is like 50% of the total memory, how the process is eating up 89% of
>    memory and the memory is not releasing even after TTL.
>
>
> Any help please...
>
> Best Regards
> Sujith P V
>
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