Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-29 Thread Anup Shukla
Hi All. Apologies for not being able to respond to my own problems ;) I would personally like to give the latest SVN version a try. I had encountered a situation where the /tmp was mounted noexec and varnish failed to load. This made me aware that Varnish uses /tmp to keep the compiled VCL. I

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Anup Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anup, what version are you running? I am running version 1.0.4 Is that too old to use? If so, i will update it immediately. No, 1.0.4 should be fine, but I'm not aware of any bugs in it that might cause the

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
ADOFMS Admin, SteveOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like Dag's latest code (which drops items from cache on a LRU scheme as memory fills up) is more likely to solve your problems longer term. I assume that comes out first in SVN, so thats another good reason to try the SVN release. I

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-28 Thread Trond Michelsen
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:54:24AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Anup Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anup, what version are you running? I am running version 1.0.4 Is that too old to use? If so, i will update it immediately. No, 1.0.4

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Trond Michelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're running Varnish 1.0.3, so this might not be related, but we've also run into a bug that causes varnish to die. 1.0.3 has numerous known bugs... In our setup, varnish is prone to crash if /tmp is cleaned up (we had a process that removed all

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-27 Thread Anup Shukla
Anup Shukla wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Still, only the child should die, the parent should automatically restart it. He says he has to restart it manually, which worries me... Anup, what version are you running? DES I am running version 1.0.4 Is that too old to

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-27 Thread ADOFMS Admin, SteveOC
I am running version 1.0.4 Is that too old to use? If so, i will update it immediately. Sorry for missing out on the release date. It is version 1.0.4 released on May 20, 2007. hmm ... I am running 1.0.4 as well, but I am building mine from the SVN repository rather than

Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-26 Thread Anup Shukla
Hi All, We have been running varnish for over a month on our production servers now. We are using the default configuration with a small change, that is to cache request with Cookies. We have a number of web servers behind a load balancer, each web server running varnish + apache. I

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anup Shukla writes: I understand that running both services on the same server is probably a bad idea, but due to time constraints i had no option but to go ahead with the current setup. It is not an obviously bad idea, and in many cases it is likely to work quite

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-26 Thread Anup Shukla
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anup Shukla writes: I understand that running both services on the same server is probably a bad idea, but due to time constraints i had no option but to go ahead with the current setup. It is not an obviously bad idea, and

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anup Shukla writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have put the cache file (or whatever its called as) under /cache/varnish the parameters are -s file,/cache/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,2G Disk space should not be a problem as there is plenty

Re: Best Practices - Suggestions Request

2007-06-26 Thread Anup Shukla
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anup Shukla writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have put the cache file (or whatever its called as) under /cache/varnish the parameters are -s file,/cache/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,2G Disk space