Varnish Error 503 Service Unavailable

Alecs Henry alecshenry at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 13:01:46 CET 2008


Hi there!

I have the exact same problem, and it comes and goes as it pleases..
I'm testing varnish with different backends (different customers sites in
the same instance) and every once in a while it locks up at the same place
(the X-Forwarded-For header on varnishlog) for any site. Not the others
though, as they are accessible through varnish just fine. And after a while
of working the cache the site that locks up comes back to life.
This is what varnishlog shows just before the 503 error:
Request:
    9 SessionOpen  c MY_IP_ADDRESS 56186 VARNISH_SERVER_IP:80
    9 ReqStart     c MY_IP_ADDRESS 56186 444163595
    9 RxRequest    c GET
    9 RxURL        c /
    9 RxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
    9 RxHeader     c Host: BACKEND_HOSTNAME
    9 RxHeader     c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:
1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
    9 RxHeader     c Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Language: q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
    9 RxHeader     c Keep-Alive: 300
    9 RxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
    9 VCL_call     c recv
    9 VCL_return   c lookup
    9 VCL_call     c hash
    9 VCL_return   c hash
    9 VCL_call     c miss
    9 VCL_return   c fetch
    9 Backend      c 17 BACKEND_NAME BACKEND_NAME
   17 TxRequest    - GET
   17 TxURL        - /
   17 TxProtocol   - HTTP/1.1
   17 TxHeader     - Host: BACKEND_HOSTNAME
   17 TxHeader     - User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:
1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
   17 TxHeader     - Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
   17 TxHeader     - Accept-Language: q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
   17 TxHeader     - Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
   17 TxHeader     - Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
   17 TxHeader     - X-Varnish: 444163595
   17 TxHeader     - X-Forwarded-For: MY_IP_ADDRESS

===> Long waiting time (sorry, didn't really time it, but it's like 5
minutes)
Response:
   17 BackendClose - BACKEND_NAME
    9 VCL_call     c error
    9 VCL_return   c deliver
    9 Length       c 452
    9 VCL_call     c deliver
    9 VCL_return   c deliver
    9 TxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
    9 TxStatus     c 503
    9 TxResponse   c Service Unavailable
    9 TxHeader     c Server: Varnish
    9 TxHeader     c Retry-After: 0
    9 TxHeader     c Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    9 TxHeader     c Content-Length: 452
    9 TxHeader     c Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:00 GMT
    9 TxHeader     c X-Varnish: 444163595
    9 TxHeader     c Age: 945
    9 TxHeader     c Via: 1.1 varnish
    9 TxHeader     c Connection: close
    9 ReqEnd       c 444163595 1226403195.496297359 1226404140.571825743
0.000217438 945.075489759 0.000038624
    9 SessionClose c error
    9 StatSess     c MY_IP_ADDRESS 56186 945 1 1 0 0 0 236 452
    0 StatAddr     - MY_IP_ADDRESS 0 427594 323 1326 0 0 548 435744 9005255
    9 SessionOpen  c MY_IP_ADDRESS 44754 VARNISH_SERVER_IP:80
    9 ReqStart     c MY_IP_ADDRESS 44754 444163596
    9 RxRequest    c GET
    9 RxURL        c /favicon.ico
    9 RxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
    9 RxHeader     c Host: BACKEND_HOSTNAME
    9 RxHeader     c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:
1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
    9 RxHeader     c Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Language: q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
    9 RxHeader     c Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
    9 RxHeader     c Keep-Alive: 300
    9 RxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
    9 VCL_call     c recv
    9 VCL_return   c lookup
    9 VCL_call     c hash
    9 VCL_return   c hash
    9 VCL_call     c miss
    9 VCL_return   c fetch
    9 Backend      c 14 BACKEND_NAME BACKEND_NAME
   14 TxRequest    - GET
   14 TxURL        - /favicon.ico
   14 TxProtocol   - HTTP/1.1
   14 TxHeader     - Host: BACKEND_HOSTNAME
   14 TxHeader     - User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:
1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
   14 TxHeader     - Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
   14 TxHeader     - Accept-Language: q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
   14 TxHeader     - Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
   14 TxHeader     - Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
   14 TxHeader     - X-Varnish: 444163596
   14 TxHeader     - X-Forwarded-For: MY_IP_ADDRESS

Any one else seeing this? Any one have any idea why this happens?

Cheers

Alecs

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Brano <admin at opensubtitles.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> recently we installed Varnish on our server. Everything works fine,
> but on download we get this error:
>
> http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/download/file/1951965961
>
> Varnish Error 503 Service Unavailable
>
> Service Unavailable
> Guru Meditation:
>
> XID: 2138997704
>
> My backend works ok:
> http://web1.opensubtitles.org/en/download/file/1951965961
> http://web2.opensubtitles.org/en/download/file/1951965961
>
> Server info:
> varnishd (varnish-2.0.1)
> OS: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE
> PHP Version 5.2.6
> httpd: Lighttpd 1.4.20
>
> Here is log:
>  276 ReqStart     c 124.157.249.3 50073 2138997704
>  276 RxRequest    c GET
>  276 RxURL        c /en/download/file/1951965961
>  276 RxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
>  276 RxHeader     c Host: www.opensubtitles.org
>  276 RxHeader     c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
> en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
>  276 RxHeader     c Accept:
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>  276 RxHeader     c Accept-Language: en
>  276 RxHeader     c Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>  276 RxHeader     c Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>  276 RxHeader     c Keep-Alive: 300
>  276 RxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
>  276 RxHeader     c Referer:
> http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3363915/prison-break-en
>  276 RxHeader     c Cookie:
> __utma=188827125.1293269160.1192786702.1226384704.1226387542.495;
> __utmz=188827125.1226166768.475.44.utmccn=(referral)|utmcsr=
> forum.opensubtitles.org|utmcct=/index.php|utmcmd=refe
>  276 RxHeader     c Cache-Control: max-age=0
>  276 VCL_call     c recv
>  276 VCL_return   c lookup
>  276 VCL_call     c hash
>  276 VCL_return   c hash
>  276 VCL_call     c miss
>  276 VCL_return   c fetch
>  139 BackendOpen  b web2 92.240.234.126 61634 92.240.234.119 80
>  276 Backend      c 139 www_director web2
>  139 TxRequest    b GET
>  139 TxURL        b /en/download/file/1951965961
>  139 TxProtocol   b HTTP/1.1
>  139 TxHeader     b Host: www.opensubtitles.org
>  139 TxHeader     b User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
> en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
>  139 TxHeader     b Accept:
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>  139 TxHeader     b Accept-Language: en
>  139 TxHeader     b Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>  139 TxHeader     b Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>  139 TxHeader     b Referer:
> http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3363915/prison-break-en
>  139 TxHeader     b Cookie:
> __utma=188827125.1293269160.1192786702.1226384704.1226387542.495;
> __utmz=188827125.1226166768.475.44.utmccn=(referral)|utmcsr=
> forum.opensubtitles.org|utmcct=/index.php|utmcmd=refe
>  139 TxHeader     b X-Varnish: 2138997704
>  139 TxHeader     b X-Forwarded-For: 124.157.249.3
>
> If you need more info, please let me know.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> /Brano
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