Comments on: Seeya Varnish, nice known’ you

By: Dommas

Dommas — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:10:39 +0000

Are you using malloc or file storage? We use 2.1.5 on Solaris 10 and see behaviour that perfectly fits the
“2. Growing to a crazy size when using the malloc implementation.”
description.
Using varnishd with -s malloc,1G and after a while the process grew to 3.6G RSS.

Thanks,
Dommas

By: victori

victori — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:27:38 +0000

Just an update, All the issues with Varnish on Solaris have been fixed with the 2.1.4 release. We have been using Varnish on our Solaris production servers since the release with great stability and performance.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:38:15 +0000

By the way I think you have a bug in your VCL (I just discovered and fixed this one in my own)

beresp.http.cookie should never exist. HTTP responses only send set-cookie headers, never cookie headers. So that should be:

beresp.http.set-cookie

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:22:00 +0000

We had stability issues with 2.0.4, including 503 issues not unlike the ones you mention. However, we’ve had spectacular uptime and stability since upgrading to 2.1.3 — we’re serving about 200 requests per second.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:37:05 +0000

I’m sorry that Varnish didn’t work out for you. We (Redpill Linpro) really do believe Varnish is a great cache, but acknowledge that there are still issues to be worked out on Solaris.

The truth is that Varnish is developed mainly for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. We receive patches for Solaris and Mac OS X, but our quality control is focused around what our customers use, and that’s GNU/Linux and FreeBSD at the moment.

The issues you described are issues we are semi-aware of when it comes to Solaris, and we hope to get the time needed to improve Varnish’ stability on Solaris.

I hope your squid rig works out for you, and hope you’ll give Varnish a try at a later date when we’ve had a chance to solve these issues. (Or you could always sponsor the development, and it’ll happen a lot faster).