<div dir="ltr">Anything else using RAM on that machine? Best idea I have now is monitor Varnish memory usage in parallel of the *.g_bytes counters.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br></div>Guillaume Quintard<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Stefano Baldo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Guillaume and Reza.<div><br></div><div>This time varnish restarted but it left some more info on syslog.</div><div>It seems like the system is running out of memory.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.297487] pool_herder invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2000d0, order=2, oom_score_adj=0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.300992] pool_herder cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.303157] CPU: 1 PID: 16214 Comm: pool_herder Tainted: G C O 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.2.amazon 02/16/2017</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] 0000000000000000 ffffffff815123b5 ffff8800eb3652f0 0000000000000000</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] ffffffff8150ff8d 0000000000000000 ffffffff810d6e3f 0000000000000000</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] ffffffff81516d2e 0000000000000200 ffffffff810689d3 ffffffff810c43e4</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] Call Trace:</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff815123b5>] ? dump_stack+0x5d/0x78</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff8150ff8d>] ? dump_header+0x76/0x1e8</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff810d6e3f>] ? smp_call_function_single+0x5f/<wbr>0xa0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81516d2e>] ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x2a</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff810689d3>] ? put_online_cpus+0x23/0x80</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff810c43e4>] ? rcu_oom_notify+0xc4/0xe0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81153d1c>] ? do_try_to_free_pages+0x4ac/<wbr>0x520</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff811427dd>] ? oom_kill_process+0x21d/0x370</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff8114239d>] ? find_lock_task_mm+0x3d/0x90</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81142f43>] ? out_of_memory+0x473/0x4b0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81148e0f>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9ef/<wbr>0xb50</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81065c86>] ? copy_process.part.25+0x116/<wbr>0x1c50</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81058301>] ? __do_page_fault+0x1d1/0x4f0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff81067990>] ? do_fork+0xe0/0x3d0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff815188f9>] ? stub_clone+0x69/0x90</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.304984] [<ffffffff8151858d>] ? system_call_fast_compare_end+<wbr>0x10/0x15</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.367638] Mem-Info:</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.368962] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.370768] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.373249] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.375652] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.377508] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 29</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.379898] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] active_anon:846474 inactive_anon:1913 isolated_anon:0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] active_file:408 inactive_file:415 isolated_file:32</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] unevictable:20736 dirty:27 writeback:0 unstable:0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] free:16797 slab_reclaimable:15276 slab_unreclaimable:10521</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] mapped:22002 shmem:22935 pagetables:30362 bounce:0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.382318] free_cma:0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.397242] Node 0 DMA free:15192kB min:184kB low:228kB high:276kB active_anon:416kB inactive_anon:60kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:20kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15988kB managed:15904kB mlocked:20kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:20kB shmem:80kB slab_reclaimable:32kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:112kB pagetables:20kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.416338] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3757 3757 3757</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.419030] Node 0 DMA32 free:50120kB min:44868kB low:56084kB high:67300kB active_anon:3386780kB inactive_anon:7592kB active_file:1732kB inactive_file:2060kB unevictable:82924kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):128kB present:3915776kB managed:3849676kB mlocked:82924kB dirty:108kB writeback:0kB mapped:88432kB shmem:91660kB slab_reclaimable:61072kB slab_unreclaimable:42184kB kernel_stack:27248kB pagetables:121428kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.440095] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.442202] Node 0 DMA: 22*4kB (UEM) 6*8kB (EM) 1*16kB (E) 2*32kB (UM) 2*64kB (UE) 2*128kB (EM) 3*256kB (UEM) 1*512kB (E) 3*1024kB (UEM) 3*2048kB (EMR) 1*4096kB (M) = 15192kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.451936] Node 0 DMA32: 4031*4kB (EM) 2729*8kB (EM) 324*16kB (EM) 1*32kB (R) 1*64kB (R) 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB (R) 1*1024kB (R) 1*2048kB (R) 0*4096kB = 46820kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.460240] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.464122] 24240 total pagecache pages</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.466048] 0 pages in swap cache</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.467672] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.470159] Free swap = 0kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.471513] Total swap = 0kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.472980] 982941 pages RAM</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.474380] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.476190] 16525 pages reserved</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.477772] 0 pages hwpoisoned</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.479189] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.482698] [ 163] 0 163 10419 1295 21 0 0 systemd-journal</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.486646] [ 165] 0 165 10202 136 21 0 -1000 systemd-udevd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.490598] [ 294] 0 294 6351 1729 14 0 0 dhclient</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.494457] [ 319] 0 319 6869 62 18 0 0 cron</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.498260] [ 321] 0 321 4964 67 14 0 0 systemd-logind</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.502346] [ 326] 105 326 10558 101 25 0 -900 dbus-daemon</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.506315] [ 342] 0 342 65721 228 31 0 0 rsyslogd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.510222] [ 343] 0 343 88199 2108 61 0 -500 dockerd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.514022] [ 350] 106 350 18280 181 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.518040] [ 351] 106 351 18280 475 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.522041] [ 352] 106 352 18280 187 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.526025] [ 353] 106 353 18280 187 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.530067] [ 354] 106 354 18280 187 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.534033] [ 355] 106 355 18280 190 36 0 0 zabbix_agentd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.538001] [ 358] 0 358 66390 1826 32 0 0 fail2ban-server</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.541972] [ 400] 0 400 35984 444 24 0 -500 docker-containe</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.545879] [ 568] 0 568 13796 168 30 0 -1000 sshd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.549733] [ 576] 0 576 3604 41 12 0 0 agetty</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.553569] [ 577] 0 577 3559 38 12 0 0 agetty</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.557322] [16201] 0 16201 29695 20707 60 0 0 varnishd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.561103] [16209] 108 16209 118909802 822425 29398 0 0 cache-main</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.565002] [27352] 0 27352 20131 214 42 0 0 sshd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.568682] [27354] 1000 27354 20165 211 41 0 0 sshd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.572307] [27355] 1000 27355 5487 146 17 0 0 bash</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.575920] [27360] 0 27360 11211 107 26 0 0 sudo</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.579593] [27361] 0 27361 11584 97 27 0 0 su</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.583155] [27362] 0 27362 5481 142 15 0 0 bash</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.586782] [27749] 0 27749 20131 214 41 0 0 sshd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.590428] [27751] 1000 27751 20164 211 39 0 0 sshd</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.593979] [27752] 1000 27752 5487 147 15 0 0 bash</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.597488] [28762] 0 28762 26528 132 17 0 0 varnishstat</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.601239] [28764] 0 28764 11211 106 26 0 0 sudo</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.604737] [28765] 0 28765 11584 97 26 0 0 su</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.608602] [28766] 0 28766 5481 141 15 0 0 bash</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.612288] [28768] 0 28768 26528 220 18 0 0 varnishstat</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.616189] Out of memory: Kill process 16209 (cache-main) score 880 or sacrifice child</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 kernel: [93823.620106] Killed process 16209 (cache-main) total-vm:475639208kB, anon-rss:3289700kB, file-rss:0kB</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 varnishd[16201]: Child (16209) died signal=9</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 varnishd[16201]: Child cleanup complete</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 varnishd[16201]: Child (30313) Started</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 varnishd[16201]: Child (30313) said Child starts</div><div>Jun 29 13:11:01 ip-172-25-2-8 varnishd[16201]: Child (30313) said SMF.s0 mmap'ed 483183820800 bytes of 483183820800</div></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Reza Naghibi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reza@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">reza@varnish-software.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Assuming the problem is running out of memory, you will need to do some memory tuning, especially given the number of threads you are using and your access patterns. Your options:<div><ul><li>Add more memory to the system</li><li>Reduce thread_pool_max</li><li>Reduce jemalloc's thread cache (MALLOC_CONF="lg_tcache_max:10<wbr>")</li><li>Use some of the tuning params in here: <a href="https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/understanding-varnish-cache-memory-usage" target="_blank">https://info.varnish-sof<wbr>tware.com/blog/understanding-<wbr>varnish-cache-memory-usage</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<br>Reza Naghibi<br>Varnish Software</div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>can you look that "varnishstat -1 | grep g_bytes" and see if if matches the memory you are seeing?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br></div>Guillaume Quintard<br></div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Stefano Baldo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Guillaume.<div><br></div><div>I increased the cli_timeout yesterday to 900sec (15min) and it restarted anyway, which seems to indicate that the thread is really stalled.</div><div><br></div><div>This was 1 minute after the last restart:</div><div><br></div><div><div>MAIN.n_object 3908216 . object structs made</div><div>SMF.s0.g_alloc 7794510 . Allocations outstanding</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>I've just changed the I/O Scheduler to noop to see what happens.</div></div><div><br></div><div>One interest thing I've found is about the memory usage.</div><div><br></div><div>In the 1st minute of use:</div><div><div>MemTotal: 3865572 kB</div><div>MemFree: 120768 kB</div><div>MemAvailable: 2300268 kB</div></div><span><div><br></div><div>1 minute before a restart:</div></span><div><div>MemTotal: 3865572 kB</div><div>MemFree: 82480 kB</div><div>MemAvailable: 68316 kB</div><div><br></div><div>It seems like the system is possibly running out of memory.</div></div><div><br></div><div>When calling varnishd, I'm specifying only "-s file,..." as storage. I see in some examples that is common to use "-s file" AND "-s malloc" together. Should I be passing "-s malloc" as well to somehow try to limit the memory usage by varnishd?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620HOEnZb"><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sadly, nothing suspicious here, you can still try:<div>- bumping the cli_timeout</div><div>- changing your disk scheduler</div><div>- changing the advice option of the file storage</div><div><br></div><div>I'm still convinced this is due to Varnish getting stuck waiting for the disk because of the file storage fragmentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe you could look at SMF.*.g_alloc and compare it to the number of objects. Ideally, we would have a 1:1 relation between objects and allocations. If that number drops prior to a restart, that would be a good clue.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br></div>Guillaume Quintard<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Stefano Baldo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Guillaume.<div><br></div><div>It keeps restarting.</div><div>Would you mind taking a quick look in the following VCL file to check if you find anything suspicious?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div><div><div>vcl 4.0;</div><div><br></div><div>import std;</div><div><br></div><div>backend default {</div><div> .host = "sites-web-server-lb";</div><div> .port = "80";</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>include "/etc/varnish/bad_bot_detectio<wbr>n.vcl";</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_recv {</div><div> call bad_bot_detection;</div><div><br></div><div> if (req.url == "/nocache" || req.url == "/version") {</div><div> return(pass);</div><div> }</div><div><br></div><div> unset req.http.Cookie;</div><span><div> if (req.method == "PURGE") {</div></span><div> ban("obj.http.x-host == " + req.http.host + " && obj.http.x-user-agent !~ Googlebot");</div><div> return(synth(750));</div><div> }</div><div><br></div><div> set req.url = regsuball(req.url, "(?<!(http:|https))\/+", "/");</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_synth {</div><div> if (resp.status == 750) {</div><div> set resp.status = 200;</div><div> synthetic("PURGED => " + req.url);</div><div> return(deliver);</div><div> } elsif (resp.status == 501) {</div><div> set resp.status = 200;</div><div> set resp.http.Content-Type = "text/html; charset=utf-8";</div><div> synthetic(std.fileread("/etc/v<wbr>arnish/pages/<a href="http://invalid_domain.ht" target="_blank">invalid_domain.ht</a><wbr>ml"));</div><div> return(deliver);</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_backend_response {</div><div> unset beresp.http.Set-Cookie;</div><div> set beresp.http.x-host = bereq.http.host;</div><div> set beresp.http.x-user-agent = bereq.http.user-agent;</div><div><br></div><div> if (bereq.url == "/themes/basic/assets/theme.mi<wbr>n.css"</div><div> || bereq.url == "/api/events/PAGEVIEW"</div><div> || bereq.url ~ "^\/assets\/img\/") {</div><div> set beresp.http.Cache-Control = "max-age=0";</div><div> } else {</div><div> unset beresp.http.Cache-Control;</div><div> }</div><div><br></div><div> if (beresp.status == 200 ||</div><div> beresp.status == 301 ||</div><div> beresp.status == 302 ||</div><div> beresp.status == 404) {</div><div> if (bereq.url ~ "\&ordenar=aleatorio$") {</div><div> set beresp.http.X-TTL = "1d";</div><div> set beresp.ttl = 1d;</div><div> } else {</div><div> set beresp.http.X-TTL = "1w";</div><div> set beresp.ttl = 1w;</div><div> }</div><div> }</div><div><br></div><div> if (bereq.url !~ "\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz<wbr>2|tbz|mp3|ogg|swf|flv)$") {</div><div> set beresp.do_gzip = true;</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_pipe {</div><div> set bereq.http.connection = "close";</div><div> return (pipe);</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_deliver {</div><div> unset resp.http.x-host;</div><div> unset resp.http.x-user-agent;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_backend_error {</div><div> if (beresp.status == 502 || beresp.status == 503 || beresp.status == 504) {</div><div> set beresp.status = 200;</div><div> set beresp.http.Content-Type = "text/html; charset=utf-8";</div><div> synthetic(std.fileread("/etc/v<wbr>arnish/pages/maintenance.html"<wbr>));</div><div> return (deliver);</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_hash {</div><div> if (req.http.User-Agent ~ "Google Page Speed") {</div><div> hash_data("Google Page Speed");</div><div> } elsif (req.http.User-Agent ~ "Googlebot") {</div><div> hash_data("Googlebot");</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_deliver {</div><div> if (resp.status == 501) {</div><div> return (synth(resp.status));</div><div> }</div><div> if (obj.hits > 0) {</div><div> set resp.http.X-Cache = "hit";</div><div> } else {</div><div> set resp.http.X-Cache = "miss";</div><div> }</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890HOEnZb"><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Nice! It may have been the cause, time will tell.can you report back in a few days to let us know?<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Guillaume Quintard </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 26, 2017 20:21, "Stefano Baldo" <<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Guillaume.<div><br></div><div>I think things will start to going better now after changing the bans.</div><div>This is how my last varnishstat looked like moments before a crash regarding the bans:</div><div><br></div><div><div>MAIN.bans 41336 . Count of bans</div><div>MAIN.bans_completed 37967 . Number of bans marked 'completed'</div><div>MAIN.bans_obj 0 . Number of bans using obj.*</div><div>MAIN.bans_req 41335 . Number of bans using req.*</div><div><div>MAIN.bans_added 41336 0.68 Bans added</div><div>MAIN.bans_deleted 0 0.00 Bans deleted</div></div><div><br></div></div><div>And this is how it looks like now:</div><div><br></div><div><div>MAIN.bans 2 . Count of bans</div><div>MAIN.bans_completed 1 . Number of bans marked 'completed'</div><div>MAIN.bans_obj 2 . Number of bans using obj.*</div><div>MAIN.bans_req 0 . Number of bans using req.*</div><div>MAIN.bans_added 2016 0.69 Bans added</div><div>MAIN.bans_deleted 2014 0.69 Bans deleted</div></div><div><br></div><div>Before the changes, bans were never deleted!</div><div>Now the bans are added and quickly deleted after a minute or even a couple of seconds.</div><div><br></div><div>May this was the cause of the problem? It seems like varnish was having a large number of bans to manage and test against.</div><div>I will let it ride now. Let's see if the problem persists or it's gone! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Looking good!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br></div>Guillaume Quintard<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Stefano Baldo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Guillaume,</div><div><br></div><div>Can the following be considered "ban lurker friendly"?</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_backend_response {</div><div> set beresp.http.x-url = bereq.http.host + bereq.url;</div><div> set beresp.http.x-user-agent = bereq.http.user-agent;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_recv {</div><div> if (req.method == "PURGE") {</div><div> ban("obj.http.x-url == " + req.http.host + req.url + " && obj.http.x-user-agent !~ Googlebot");</div><div> return(synth(750));</div><div> }</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>sub vcl_deliver {</div><div> unset resp.http.x-url;</div><div> unset resp.http.x-user-agent;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195HOEnZb"><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Not lurker friendly at all indeed. You'll need to avoid req.* expression. Easiest way is to stash the host, user-agent and url in beresp.http.* and ban against those (unset them in vcl_deliver).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think you need to expand the VSL at all.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-- <br>Guillaume Quintard </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 26, 2017 16:51, "Stefano Baldo" <<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195m_1923865823290609677m_-368546667290509424quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi <span style="font-size:12.8px">Guillaume.</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks for answering.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I'm using a SSD disk. I've changed from ext4 to ext2 to increase performance but it stills restarting.<br></div><div>Also, I checked the I/O performance for the disk and there is no signal of overhead.</div><div><br></div><div>I've changed the /var/lib/varnish to a tmpfs and increased its 80m default size passing "-l 200m,20m" to varnishd and using "nodev,nosuid,noatime,size=256<wbr>M 0 0" for the tmpfs mount. There was a problem here. After a couple of hours varnish died and I received a "no space left on device" message - deleting the /var/lib/varnish solved the problem and varnish was up again, but it's weird because there was free memory on the host to be used with the tmpfs directory, so I don't know what could have happened. I will try to stop increasing the /var/lib/varnish size.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I am worried about the bans. You asked me if the bans are lurker friedly. Well, I don't think so. My bans are created this way:</div><div><br></div><div>ban("req.http.host == " + req.http.host + " && req.url ~ " + req.url + " && req.http.User-Agent !~ Googlebot");<br></div><div><br></div><div>Are they lurker friendly? I was taking a quick look and the documentation and it looks like they're not.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195m_1923865823290609677m_-368546667290509424elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Guillaume Quintard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume@varnish-software.com" target="_blank">guillaume@varnish-software.co<wbr>m</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Stefano,<div><br></div><div>Let's cover the usual suspects: I/Os. I think here Varnish gets stuck trying to push/pull data and can't make time to reply to the CLI. I'd recommend monitoring the disk activity (bandwidth and iops) to confirm.</div><div><br></div><div>After some time, the file storage is terrible on a hard drive (SSDs take a bit more time to degrade) because of fragmentation. One solution to help the disks cope is to overprovision themif they're SSDs, and you can try different advices in the file storage definition in the command line (last parameter, after granularity).</div><div><br></div><div>Is your /var/lib/varnish mount on tmpfs? That could help too.</div><div><br></div><div>40K bans is a lot, are they ban-lurker friendly?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4767850188272771689m_6962546993069621369m_-7059487644435461620m_-907744611723116449m_-9144013546892627890m_5597395131735215197m_-8136520161260504004m_3696085977752858327m_2656412179228630195m_1923865823290609677m_-368546667290509424m_3744014415938268593m_-4357061985075264893gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- <br></div>Guillaume Quintard<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Stefano Baldo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefanobaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefanobaldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello.<div><br></div><div>I am having a critical problem with Varnish Cache in production for over a month and any help will be appreciated.</div><div>The problem is that Varnish child process is recurrently being restarted after 10~20h of use, with the following message:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Jun 23 09:15:13 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child (11824) not responding to CLI, killed it.</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:13 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Unexpected reply from ping: 400 CLI communication error</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:13 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child (11824) died signal=9</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:14 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child cleanup complete</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:14 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child (24038) Started</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:14 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child (24038) said Child starts</div><div>Jun 23 09:15:14 b858e4a8bd72 varnishd[11816]: Child (24038) said SMF.s0 mmap'ed 483183820800 bytes of 483183820800</div></div><div><br></div><div>The following link is the varnishstat output just 1 minute before a restart:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://pastebin.com/g0g5RVTs" target="_blank">https://pastebin.com/g0g5RVTs</a></div><div><br></div><div>Environment:</div><div><br></div><div>varnish-5.1.2 revision 6ece695</div><div>Debian 8.7 - Debian GNU/Linux 8 (3.16.0)</div><div>Installed using pre-built package from official repo at <a href="http://packagecloud.io" target="_blank">packagecloud.io</a></div><div>CPU 2x2.9 GHz</div><div>Mem 3.69 GiB</div><div>Running inside a Docker container</div><div>NFILES=131072</div><div>MEMLOCK=82000</div><div><br></div><div>Additional info:</div><div><br></div><div>- I need to cache a large number of objets and the cache should last for almost a week, so I have set up a 450G storage space, I don't know if this is a problem;</div><div>- I use ban a lot. There was about 40k bans in the system just before the last crash. I really don't know if this is too much or may have anything to do with it;</div><div>- No registered CPU spikes (almost always by 30%);</div><div>- No panic is reported, the only info I can retrieve is from syslog;</div><div>- During all the time, event moments before the crashes, everything is okay and requests are being responded very fast.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefano Baldo</div><div><br></div></div>
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