Re: Reloading default.vcl

2008-07-01 Thread Anders Nordby
Hi, On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:52AM +1200, Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting wrote: Afterwards you can vcl.discard old-unique-name if you want to get rid of it. It is pretty easy to automate this all with expect(1) as well, if an 'automated' reload solution is required :)

Re: grace handling

2008-07-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wichert Akkerman | Is there any documentation on how req.grace and obj.grace are used? I | could not find any mention of grace handling in the manpages or the wiki. There's a commit, http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/changeset/2392 which explains a little bit about this. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Strategy for large cache sets

2008-07-01 Thread Skye Poier Nott
I want to deploy Varnish with very large cache sizes (200GB or more) for large, long lived file sets. Is it more efficient to use large swap or large mmap in this scenario? According to the FreeBSD lists, even 20GB of swap requires 200MB of kern.maxswzone just to keep track of it, so it

Re: Strategy for large cache sets

2008-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skye Poier Nott writes : I want to deploy Varnish with very large cache sizes (200GB or more) for large, long lived file sets. Is it more efficient to use large swap or large mmap in this scenario? We have no real-world experience with content of that size, so

Re: Strategy for large cache sets

2008-07-01 Thread Skye Poier Nott
Thanks, that was my hunch. I'll let you know how it goes when I have some performance metrics. Skye On 1-Jul-08, at 11:24 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skye Poier Nott writes : I want to deploy Varnish with very large cache sizes (200GB or more) for

Re: Strategy for large cache sets

2008-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skye Poier Nott writes: Thanks, that was my hunch. I'll let you know how it goes when I have some performance metrics. Input is very much appreciated. I can also recommend setting up Munin or similar to plot all the varnishstat and systat variables, that has

Trunk build errors

2008-07-01 Thread Skye Poier Nott
Weird, any thoughts? Or am I just asking for trouble with -trunk :) $ svn update (last night's) $ make clean configure make mkdir .libs gcc -DVARNISH_STATE_DIR=\/usr/local/var/varnish\ -g -O2 -o .libs/ varnishd varnishd-cache_acceptor.o varnishd-cache_acceptor_epoll.o