Hello all,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>I'm running Varnish on a box with 4GB RAM. There are hundreds of thousands of objects being served, and I'm certain that they don't all fit in that relatively meager amount of RAM. I understand that Varnish's model dictates that the kernel will be trusted to use virtual memory as necessary if the cached objects don't fit in RAM. I have a few questions about this:<br>
<br>1. How can you tell whether your Varnish objects fit in RAM?<br>2. If I have objects residing in virtual memory, to what extent will my performance be adversely affected? If I want my site to be fast, do I basically need to go out and buy as much RAM as it will take so that virtual memory isn't needed?<br>
3. I noticed tonight that my machine was using a few hundred megs of swap space, which I've never seen happen before. Varnish is the only non-system service running on this box. My understanding was that Varnish would get only as much RAM as was available and then send the overflow into the file-backed virtual memory. If that's the case, though, then why is swap space being used? Is this just a side effect of how the kernel allocates memory, or is something else going on here?<br>
<br>Many thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Martin<br>
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