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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2 Days? That’s certainly…. sub-optimal. What OS are you running? Our 8 x Varnish servers (64-bit Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS) are rock solid and easily run for weeks without any issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We run with malloc,24G (32Gb RAM installed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you share your startup options and VCL?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Nowacky<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 1 October 2010 7:02 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> Caunter, Stefan<br><b>Cc:</b> varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Panic Signal 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2.1.2, would prefer to use malloc over file storage if possible, but haven't tried file to see if that's the issue.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Caunter, Stefan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What version of varnish? Have you tried with –s file,/path/to/file</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-CA> </span></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>,1075200000 instead of –s malloc?</span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Stefan Caunter :: Senior Systems Administrator :: TOPS</span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>e:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:scaunter@topscms.com">scaunter@topscms.com</a> :: m: (416) 561-4871</span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.thestar.com">www.thestar.com</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.topscms.com">www.topscms.com</a></span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org">varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>Ben Nowacky<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>September-30-10 12:53 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org">varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org</a><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Panic Signal 6.</span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Hey everyone ! Wondering if someone can lend a hand. We've gotten our servers upgraded to 64-bit OS, and seen tremendous stability enhancement with varnish over our 32-bit os, which crashed every 5-10 minutes. We can now get about 2 days of uptime before we have a new child process crash. Logs are listed below.. Wondering if something obvious jumps out at anyone as to what the cause of this may be.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Appreciate any insight from the community ! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sep 30 16:37:17 srv860 varnishd[16195]: Child (16196) died signal=6<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sep 30 16:37:17 srv860 varnishd[16195]: Child (16196) Panic message: Assert error in WS_Release(), cache_ws.c line 193: Condition(bytes <= ws->e - ws->f) not true. errno = 104 (Connection reset by peer) thread = (cache-worker) ident = Linux,2.6.18-194.el5,x86_64,-smalloc,-hcritbit,epoll Backtrace: 0x422616: /usr/sbin/varnishd [0x422616] 0x42d475: /usr/sbin/varnishd(WS_Release+0xf5) [0x42d475] 0x427b33: /usr/sbin/varnishd [0x427b33] 0x42bc45: /usr/sbin/varnishd(VRT_SetHdr+0xf5) [0x42bc45] 0x2aaaab003e76: ./vcl.1P9zoqAU.so [0x2aaaab003e76] 0x427006: /usr/sbin/varnishd(VCL_deliver_method+0x46) [0x427006] 0x4130cf: /usr/sbin/varnishd [0x4130cf] 0x413e49: /usr/sbin/varnishd(CNT_Session+0x369) [0x413e49] 0x424a68: /usr/sbin/varnishd [0x424a68] 0x423d4d: /usr/sbin/varnishd [0x423d4d] sp = 0x2aaac060e008 { fd = 351, id = 351, xid = 1104824170, client = 63.240.230.197:26479, step = STP_DELIVER, handling = deliver, restarts = 0, esis = 0 ws = 0x2aaac060e078 { id = "sess", {s,f<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sep 30 16:37:17 srv860 varnishd[16195]: child (32562) Started<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sep 30 16:37:17 srv860 varnishd[16195]: Child (32562) said <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sep 30 16:37:17 srv860 varnishd[16195]: Child (32562) said Child starts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>