Varnish malloc issue

[Guillaume Quintard]

Sorry, I didn't get your question.

-- 
Guillaume Quintard

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:31 AM, sujith pv <sujithnss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Guillaume. May be Im asking a very basic question , but still how
> this short lived objects are created and I'm not giving any settings for
> the same as well.
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Guillaume Quintard <
> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/reference/varnishd.html#shortlived
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2016 08:07, "sujith pv" <sujithnss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Guillaume. I will try the transient settings first and verify
>>> the same. Also could you please elaborate on the short lived objects.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Sujith P V
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Guillaume Quintard <
>>> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Viktor,
>>>>
>>>> Have a look here https://www.varnish-cache
>>>> .org/docs/trunk/users-guide/storage-backends.html#transient-storage
>>>>
>>>> Sujith, please try to use a packaged version from your distribution.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Guillaume Quintard
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Viktor Villafuerte <
>>>> viktor.villafuerte at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Guillaume,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu 01 Sep 2016 09:53:22, Guillaume Quintard wrote:
>>>>> > Is that virtual or real memory?
>>>>> > Try to cap your Transient storage to 1GB, you may be overloaded with
>>>>> short
>>>>> > lived objects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you elaborate on this bit more? I've got very similar problem
>>>>> here. Eg: Total memory 384g
>>>>>
>>>>> VIRT: 487g
>>>>> RES:  311g
>>>>>
>>>>> free says: 46g free
>>>>>
>>>>> but SWAP is 91.3% used :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How can this be?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> v
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 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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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Viktor Villafuerte
>>>>> Optus Internet Engineering
>>>>> t: +61 2 80825265
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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