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    • marcellocM
      marcelloc
      last edited by

      Is there any log or alert or message during manual service restart to help on identifying this problem?

      I`m using it on amd64 for a long time without crashes.

      att,
      Marcello Coutinho

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      • C
        canefield
        last edited by

        Yes, after a couple of tests the following error emerge:

        "php: : The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/varnish.sh' returned exit code '2', the output was 'kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 65536 sysctl: kern.ipc.nmbclusters: Invalid argument kern.ipc.somaxconn: 16384 -> 16384 kern.maxfiles: 131072 -> 131072 kern.maxfilesperproc: 104856 -> 104856 kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc: 4096 -> 4096 NB: Storage size limited to 2GB on 32 bit architecture, NB: otherwise we could run out of address space. Message from VCC-compiler: Reference to unknown backend 'CANLB' at ('input' Line 55 Pos 28) .backend = CANLB; –-------------------------###########- In director specification starting at: ('input' Line 53 Pos 1) director CA client { ########------------ Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1 VCL compilation failed'"

        Thanks a lot,
        Canefield

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          canefield,

          something is messing up config:

          Message from VCC-compiler: Reference to unknown backend 'CANLB' at ('input' Line 55 Pos 28) .backend = CANLB; –-------------------------###########-
          In director specification starting at: ('input' Line 53 Pos 1) director CA client { ########------------ Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1 VCL compilation failed'"

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            xudus
            last edited by

            marcelloc, is there any particular command that I could run that would help with finding the root cause?

            TIA,
            Dave

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              xudus,

              try to run the startup command on console/ssh

              /usr/local/etc/rc.d/varnish.sh restart

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                xudus
                last edited by

                This is what I'm getting:

                
                kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 65536
                sysctl: kern.ipc.nmbclusters: Invalid argument
                kern.ipc.somaxconn: 16384 -> 16384
                kern.maxfiles: 131072 -> 131072
                kern.maxfilesperproc: 104856 -> 104856
                kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc: 4096 -> 4096
                storage_malloc: max size 128 MB.
                Using old SHMFILE
                
                
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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
                  last edited by

                  @xudus:

                  This is what I'm getting:

                  There is no varnish fatal errors on this log, so it should be runinng.

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                    xudus
                    last edited by

                    Sorry, it is running as I just restarted pfs. I'll post the output when it'll malfunction next time.

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                      xudus
                      last edited by

                      marcelloc, it did it again.

                      The output from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/varnish.sh restart is same as before (no errors). Is there any other place that I could poke to see what is braking varnish?

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
                        last edited by

                        xudus,

                        check with netstat -an if varnish port are still up
                        check with ps ax | grep -i varnish if varnish is still running.

                        You can also create a cron job to restart varnish after two days for example to prevent this random error.

                        att,
                        Marcello Coutinho

                        Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

                        Help a community developer! ;D

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                          xudus
                          last edited by

                          Marcello,

                          Varnish is running and port 80 listening (*.80). Restarting varnish does not help. Restarting pfs does.

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                            xudus
                            last edited by

                            I disabled squidGuard (1.4_2 pkg v.1.9.1) and everything is working so far for the last 14 days. I'll give it another week or two before re-enabling squidGuard again.

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                              xudus
                              last edited by

                              After 20 days varnish goes belly up. Will be removing squid and squidGuard to see what difference it makes. There is no love between those three.

                              BTW does anybody have pfBlocker, pfflowd, squid, squidGuard and Varnish installed and stable on pfs 2.0.1?

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