Swapping & High Load

Sean Allen sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com
Wed Mar 20 13:28:54 CET 2013


I'm seeing something higher like 5k per.

6g malloc.
600k objects cached right now
varnish has 9.7 gigs of memory resident


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com>wrote:
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>> Does Varnish need additional memory beyond what is allocated via malloc?
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> Yes. Malloc is only the backend storage. In addition there are a few data
> structures that are global. If I recall correctly the overhead is more or
> less 1k per object.
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