October 09, 2012
by Jim
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My servers now a days run Varnish simply for the speed. On my main site Varnish was getting out of control with the RAM / Memory usage. Varnish would slowly creep up and eat all the memory, even though I was trying to hack Varnish to only use 128MB of ram, especially since the site is hosted on a lowendbox by Frantech (Buyvm.net). The answer, which I am not really sure WHY it works, but inside of vcl_fetch in the /etc/varnish/*.vcl file, I had set beresp.grace to be 30M, I tried this with 2M as well, but ultimately I took out the grace period setting and now my box is running Varnish with Lighttpd and PHP-FPM getting around 15k-30k unique hits a day and not going over 156MB of RAM usage.… Read More
Category: Lighttpd, Linux, PHP, Tricks, VarnishTags: apache, box, cache, control, fast, fix, fpm, hack, hacking, help, howto, low end, memory, nginx php, out, ram, running, server, stable, trick, varnish
