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    Varnish stops working after few days

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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

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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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