Varnish malloc issue

[sujith pv]

Hi

Please find the below memory of Varnishd in my case (result from TOP
command)

[image: Inline image 3]
Here 14.9g being VIRT and 11g being RES.

@Andreas : Apologies for starting a new thread as previous thread got
diverted in between by a different query by someone. Actually I'm very
newbie to Varnish and just learning and trying to sort out issues.

Best Regards
Sujith P V

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Guillaume Quintard <
guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> 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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