Varnish restarting sporadically... losing entire cache...

[Ben Nowacky]

Thanks Flavio! Here's the errors that I see in the /var/log/messages... Is this what you were seeing? 

Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22165) Panic message: Assert error in SMP_FreeObj(), storage_persistent.c line 802:   Condition(sg->nfixed > 0) not true. thread = (cache-timeout) ident = Linux,2.6.18-128.4.1.el5PAE,i686,-spersistent,-hclassic,epoll Backtrace:   0x806ca7c: pan_ic+cc   0x808851e: SMP_FreeObj+13e   0x8064b5f: HSH_Deref+21f   0x80618d1: exp_timer+321   0x806f1fd: wrk_bgthread+cd   0x44249b: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x44249b]   0x39942e: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0x39942e]  
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: child (22984) Started
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said 
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Child starts
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Dropped 0 segments to make free_reserve
Jun 24 17:38:23 srv860 varnishd[15625]: Child (22984) said Silo completely loaded
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Flavio Torres wrote:

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> On 06/24/2010 02:28 PM, Ben Nowacky wrote:
>> - Deployed varnish on 1 of our servers yesterday for final testing on the
>> live site. Runs along well, seems to be doing great. Run varnishstat to
> keep
>> an eye on it, and randomly all the stats reset back to 0, and there's a
> full
>> cache purge, which means i'm guessing varnish has restarted?
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Check your /var/log/messages, I had this problem with a "cli time out"
> message.
> 
> If you too, just increment your varnishd with -p cli_timeout 20 -p
> ping_interval 5 option.
> 
> hope this helps
> 
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