Varnish 4 Performance Issues

Guillaume Quintard guillaume at varnish-software.com
Wed Sep 26 15:16:16 UTC 2018


Getting a lot of Hit-for-Pass?

Are you doing something like setting the ttl to 0s by any chance?
-- 
Guillaume Quintard


On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:55 PM Junaid Mukhtar <junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interestingly we are seeing a lot of time in WaitingList before going to
> VCL Fetch
>
> -   VCL_return     hash
> -   VCL_call       HASH
> -   VCL_return     lookup
> -   Timestamp      Waitinglist: 1537973412.501378 2.410131 2.409963
> -   VCL_call       MISS
> -   VCL_return     fetch
> -   Link           bereq 22354816 fetch
> -   Timestamp      Fetch: 1537973412.505995 2.414748 0.004617
>
>
> --------
> Regards,
> Junaid
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:31 AM Junaid Mukhtar <junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I totally agree about that.
>>
>> what we have figured out is that during the steady periods of performance
>> tests it run absolutely fine; but as soon as we spike up the traffic
>> (double the normal peak) performance degrades dramatically.
>>
>>
>> --------
>> Regards,
>> Junaid
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:17 PM Guillaume Quintard <
>> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>>
>>> without the vcl (and/or logs, but I'm assuming those are even more
>>> confidential), that's a tough cookie to debug
>>> --
>>> Guillaume Quintard
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:35 AM Junaid Mukhtar <
>>> junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Apologies but I am not allowed to share the VCL. If there's any other
>>>> thing like stats etc that might be helpful then do let me know
>>>>
>>>> --------
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Junaid
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 4:15 PM Guillaume Quintard <
>>>> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> would you be able to share your vcl?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Guillaume Quintard
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 4:54 PM Junaid Mukhtar <
>>>>> junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help guys; this is really getting to us.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --------
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Junaid
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:57 PM Junaid Mukhtar <
>>>>>> junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is what we get in varnishhist
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 280_
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                                      |
>>>>>>> 230_                                 |
>>>>>>>                                      |
>>>>>>>                                      |
>>>>>>>                                      |
>>>>>>>                                      |
>>>>>>> 180_                                 |
>>>>>>>                                     ||
>>>>>>>                                     ||
>>>>>>>                                     |||
>>>>>>>                                     |||
>>>>>>> 130_                                |||
>>>>>>>                                     |||
>>>>>>>                                    ||||||
>>>>>>>                                    ||||||
>>>>>>>                                    ||||||
>>>>>>> 80_                                ||||||
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ||||||                                                               #
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ||||||                                                               ###
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> |||||||                                                             # ###
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> |||||||||                                                           ##### #
>>>>>>> 30_
>>>>>>> |||||||||                                                           ########
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> |||||||||
>>>>>>> #########
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ||||||||||
>>>>>>> ###########
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ||||||||||||                                                ## #
>>>>>>> #############       #
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------
>>>>>>> |1e-6                 |1e-5                 |1e-4
>>>>>>> |1e-3                 |1e-2                 |1e-1
>>>>>>> |1e0                  |1e1                  |1e2
>>>>>>> --------
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Junaid
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:54 PM Junaid Mukhtar <
>>>>>>> junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Below is the output; all of them are default except i was trying to
>>>>>>>> up the threads_pool to 4 but didn't feel any imporvement in performance
>>>>>>>> degradation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> accept_filter              off [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> acceptor_sleep_decay       0.9 (default)
>>>>>>>> acceptor_sleep_incr        0.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> acceptor_sleep_max         0.050 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> auto_restart               on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> backend_idle_timeout       60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> ban_dups                   on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> ban_lurker_age             60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> ban_lurker_batch           1000 (default)
>>>>>>>> ban_lurker_sleep           0.010 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> between_bytes_timeout      60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> cc_command                 "exec gcc -std=gnu99  -O2 -g
>>>>>>>> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Wall -Werror -pthread -fpic -shared -Wl,-x -o %o
>>>>>>>> %s" (default)
>>>>>>>> cli_buffer                 8k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> cli_limit                  48k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> cli_timeout                60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> clock_skew                 10 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> clock_step                 1.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> connect_timeout            3.500 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> critbit_cooloff            180.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> debug                      none (default)
>>>>>>>> default_grace              10.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> default_keep               0.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> default_ttl                120.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> feature                    none (default)
>>>>>>>> fetch_chunksize            16k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> fetch_maxchunksize         0.25G [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> first_byte_timeout         60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> gzip_buffer                32k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> gzip_level                 6 (default)
>>>>>>>> gzip_memlevel              8 (default)
>>>>>>>> http_gzip_support          on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_max_hdr               64 [header lines] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_range_support         on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_req_hdr_len           8k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_req_size              32k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_resp_hdr_len          8k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> http_resp_size             32k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> idle_send_timeout          60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> listen_depth               1024 [connections] (default)
>>>>>>>> lru_interval               2.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> max_esi_depth              5 [levels] (default)
>>>>>>>> max_restarts               4 [restarts] (default)
>>>>>>>> max_retries                4 [retries] (default)
>>>>>>>> nuke_limit                 50 [allocations] (default)
>>>>>>>> pcre_match_limit           10000 (default)
>>>>>>>> pcre_match_limit_recursion 20 (default)
>>>>>>>> ping_interval              3 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> pipe_timeout               60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> pool_req                   10,100,10 (default)
>>>>>>>> pool_sess                  10,100,10 (default)
>>>>>>>> pool_vbo                   10,100,10 (default)
>>>>>>>> prefer_ipv6                off [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> rush_exponent              3 [requests per request] (default)
>>>>>>>> send_timeout               600.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> session_max                100000 [sessions] (default)
>>>>>>>> shm_reclen                 255b [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> shortlived                 10.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> sigsegv_handler            on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> syslog_cli_traffic         on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> tcp_fastopen               off [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> tcp_keepalive_intvl        75.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> tcp_keepalive_probes       9 [probes] (default)
>>>>>>>> tcp_keepalive_time         7200.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_add_delay      0.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_destroy_delay  1.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_fail_delay     0.200 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_max            5000 [threads] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_min            100 [threads] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_reserve        0 [threads] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_stack          48k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pool_timeout        300.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_pools               2 [pools] (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_queue_limit         20 (default)
>>>>>>>> thread_stats_rate          10 [requests] (default)
>>>>>>>> timeout_idle               5.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> timeout_linger             0.050 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> vcc_allow_inline_c         off [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> vcc_err_unref              on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> vcc_unsafe_path            on [bool] (default)
>>>>>>>> vcl_cooldown               600.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> vcl_dir                    /etc/varnish (default)
>>>>>>>> vmod_dir                   /usr/lib64/varnish/vmods (default)
>>>>>>>> vsl_buffer                 4k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> vsl_mask                   -VCL_trace,-WorkThread,-Hash,-VfpAcct
>>>>>>>> (default)
>>>>>>>> vsl_reclen                 255b [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> vsl_space                  80M [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> vsm_free_cooldown          60.000 [seconds] (default)
>>>>>>>> vsm_space                  1M [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> workspace_backend          64k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> workspace_client           64k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> workspace_session          0.50k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>> workspace_thread           2k [bytes] (default)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --------
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Junaid
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:37 PM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi at varni.sh>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM Junaid Mukhtar <
>>>>>>>>> junaid.mukhtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Hi
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > we are in middle of upgrading from varnish 3.0.7 to varnish
>>>>>>>>> 4.1.10; but unfortunately all of the response times in the performance test
>>>>>>>>> are indicating an increase of at least 100%
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > We have analyzed the logs and everything but can't get around
>>>>>>>>> this; the issue is not only for the non-cached pages but it's also
>>>>>>>>> impacting the cached pages. We are also struggling to analyze it further as
>>>>>>>>> well, any guidenace as to what we can do in terms of putting debug logging
>>>>>>>>> in would be helpful.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > One of the areas we are considering is to output response times,
>>>>>>>>> but it's proving difficult for me. Any suggestions
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What is the output of `varnishadm param.show` ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dridi
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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