Failure cenarios?

2007-07-03 Thread Gaute Amundsen
I have come to understand that in some builds under some conditions varnish may hang or a crash. (we run 1.0.4-3el4.i386.rpm) I have now routed all our ~180 sites troug varnish, pipe by default, cached for selected hostnames. Talk a bout all ones eggs in one basket :) The way it is all set

Re: Failure cenarios?

2007-07-03 Thread Denis Brækhus
- Gaute Amundsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to understand that in some builds under some conditions varnish may hang or a crash. (we run 1.0.4-3el4.i386.rpm) Hi Gaute, I'll just say that in my experience Varnish has proven itself to be extremely stable. We actually run 1.0.3

Re: Failure cenarios?

2007-07-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Gaute Amundsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now the question is, how do I best detect if varnsih should have a problem? Would it be reasonably reliable to just chek if the pid from /var/run/varnish.pid is running, do I need to fetch a page, or is there some better way? I would recommend

Re: Failure cenarios?

2007-07-03 Thread Anup Shukla
James Quacinella wrote: I use monit for monitoring programs. Here is a snippet I had used when monitoring a varnish install (too bad it never went into production; change values to you liking / environment): A Billion thanks to you :) I have been looking for a tool that could do this for