Memory utilisation gradually increasing

[Guillaume Quintard]

Hello David,

Have a look at varnishstat ("varnishstat -1 | grep -e g_space -e g_bytes").
When you are passing, varnish is going to consume Transient storage.

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Guillaume Quintard

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:19 AM, FULLER, David <FULLERD at parliament.uk>
wrote:

> We currently have an issue with memory utilisation in Varnish 5.2.1, we
> are only using Reverse Proxy not the caching functionality.
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> We are running it in an AWS ECS Docker container, with 1GB of memory
> allocated.  Memory increases daily by around 8% until it tops out and site
> connectivity problems occur.  Redeploying the container resolves the
> problem and the cycle starts again.
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> When Varnish starts we have ‘malloc’ set at 100MB, from my understanding
> this setting is only relevant if caching is being used, which in our case
> it isn’t.
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> Has anyone seen a similar problem?
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> Thanks
>
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