VARNISHD(1)VARNISHD(1)NAMEvarnishd - HTTP accelerator daemon
SYNOPSISvarnishd [-a address[:port][,PROTO]] [-b host[:port]] [-C] [-d] [-F]
[-f config] [-h type[,options]] [-i identity] [-j jail[,jailoptions]]
[-l vsl[,vsm]] [-M address:port] [-n name] [-P file] [-p param=value]
[-r param[,param...]] [-S secret-file] [-s [name=]kind[,options]] [-T
address[:port]] [-t TTL] [-V] [-W waiter]
DESCRIPTION
The varnishd daemon accepts HTTP requests from clients, passes them on
to a backend server and caches the returned documents to better satisfy
future requests for the same document.
OPTIONS-a <address[:port][,PROTO]>
Listen for client requests on the specified address and port.
The address can be a host name ("localhost"), an IPv4 dot‐
ted-quad ("127.0.0.1"), or an IPv6 address enclosed in square
brackets ("[::1]"). If address is not specified, varnishd will
listen on all available IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces. If port is not
specified, port 80 (http) is used. An additional protocol type
can be set for the listening socket with PROTO. Valid protocol
types are: HTTP/1 (default), and PROXY. Multiple listening
addresses can be specified by using multiple -a arguments.
-b <host[:port]>
Use the specified host as backend server. If port is not speci‐
fied, the default is 8080.
-C Print VCL code compiled to C language and exit. Specify the VCL
file to compile with the -f option.
-d Enables debugging mode: The parent process runs in the fore‐
ground with a CLI connection on stdin/stdout, and the child
process must be started explicitly with a CLI command. Terminat‐
ing the parent process will also terminate the child.
-F Do not fork, run in the foreground.
-f config
Use the specified VCL configuration file instead of the builtin
default. See vcl(7) for details on VCL syntax.
When neither a -f nor a -b argument are given, varnishd will not
start the worker process but process cli commands.
-h <type[,options]>
Specifies the hash algorithm. See Hash Algorithm Options for a
list of supported algorithms.
-i identity
Specify the identity of the Varnish server. This can be accessed
using server.identity from VCL.
-j <jail[,jailoptions]>
Specify the jailing technology to use.
-l <vsl[,vsm]>
Specifies size of shmlog file. vsl is the space for the VSL
records [80M] and vsm is the space for stats counters [1M].
Scaling suffixes like 'K' and 'M' can be used up to (G)igabytes.
Default is 81 Megabytes.
-M <address:port>
Connect to this port and offer the command line interface.
Think of it as a reverse shell. When running with -M and there
is no backend defined the child process (the cache) will not
start initially.
-n name
Specify the name for this instance. Amongst other things, this
name is used to construct the name of the directory in which
varnishd keeps temporary files and persistent state. If the
specified name begins with a forward slash, it is interpreted as
the absolute path to the directory which should be used for this
purpose.
-P file
Write the PID of the process to the specified file.
-p <param=value>
Set the parameter specified by param to the specified value, see
List of Parameters for details. This option can be used multiple
times to specify multiple parameters.
-r <param[,param...]>
Make the listed parameters read only. This gives the system
administrator a way to limit what the Varnish CLI can do. Con‐
sider making parameters such as cc_command, vcc_allow_inline_c
and vmod_dir read only as these can potentially be used to esca‐
late privileges from the CLI.
-S file
Path to a file containing a secret used for authorizing access
to the management port. If not provided a new secret will be
drawn from the system PRNG.
-s <[name=]type[,options]>
Use the specified storage backend, see Storage Backend Options.
This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple stor‐
age files. Names are referenced in logs, VCL, statistics, etc.
-T <address[:port]>
Offer a management interface on the specified address and port.
See Management Interface for a list of management commands.
-t TTL Specifies the default time to live (TTL) for cached objects.
This is a shortcut for specifying the default_ttl run-time
parameter.
-V Display the version number and exit.
-W waiter
Specifies the waiter type to use.
Hash Algorithm Options
The following hash algorithms are available:
-h critbit
self-scaling tree structure. The default hash algorithm in Var‐
nish Cache 2.1 and onwards. In comparison to a more traditional
B tree the critbit tree is almost completely lockless. Do not
change this unless you are certain what you're doing.
-h simple_list
A simple doubly-linked list. Not recommended for production
use.
-h <classic[,buckets]>
A standard hash table. The hash key is the CRC32 of the object's
URL modulo the size of the hash table. Each table entry points
to a list of elements which share the same hash key. The buckets
parameter specifies the number of entries in the hash table.
The default is 16383.
Storage Backend Options
The following storage types are available:
-s <malloc[,size]>
malloc is a memory based backend.
-s <file,path[,size[,granularity]]>
The file backend stores data in a file on disk. The file will be
accessed using mmap.
The path is mandatory. If path points to a directory, a tempo‐
rary file will be created in that directory and immediately
unlinked. If path points to a non-existing file, the file will
be created.
If size is omitted, and path points to an existing file with a
size greater than zero, the size of that file will be used. If
not, an error is reported.
Granularity sets the allocation block size. Defaults to the sys‐
tem page size or the filesystem block size, whichever is larger.
-s <persistent,path,size>
Persistent storage. Varnish will store objects in a file in a
manner that will secure the survival of most of the objects in
the event of a planned or unplanned shutdown of Varnish. The
persistent storage backend has multiple issues with it and will
likely be removed from a future version of Varnish.
Jail Options
Varnish jails are a generalization over various platform specific meth‐
ods to reduce the privileges of varnish processes. They may have spe‐
cific options. Available jails are:
-j solaris
Reduce privileges(5) for varnishd and sub-process to the mini‐
mally required set. Only available on platforms which have the
setppriv(2) call.
-j <unix[,user=`user`][,ccgroup=`group`]>
Default on all other platforms if varnishd is either started
with an effective uid of 0 ("as root") or as user varnish.
With the unix jail technology activated, varnish will switch to
an alternative user for subprocesses and change the effective
uid of the master process whenever possible.
The optional user argument specifies which alternative user to
use. It defaults to varnish
The optional ccgroup argument specifies a group to add to var‐
nish subprocesses requiring access to a c-compiler. There is no
default.
-j none
last resort jail choice: With jail technology none, varnish will
run all processes with the privileges it was started with.
Management Interface
If the -T option was specified, varnishd will offer a command-line man‐
agement interface on the specified address and port. The recommended
way of connecting to the command-line management interface is through
varnishadm(1).
The commands available are documented in varnish(7).
RUN TIME PARAMETERS
Run Time Parameter Flags
Runtime parameters are marked with shorthand flags to avoid repeating
the same text over and over in the table below. The meaning of the
flags are:
· experimental
We have no solid information about good/bad/optimal values for this
parameter. Feedback with experience and observations are most wel‐
come.
· delayed
This parameter can be changed on the fly, but will not take effect
immediately.
· restart
The worker process must be stopped and restarted, before this parame‐
ter takes effect.
· reload
The VCL programs must be reloaded for this parameter to take effect.
· experimental
We're not really sure about this parameter, tell us what you find.
· wizard
Do not touch unless you really know what you're doing.
· only_root
Only works if varnishd is running as root.
Default Value Exceptions on 32 bit Systems
Be aware that on 32 bit systems, certain default values are reduced
relative to the values listed below, in order to conserve VM space:
· workspace_client: 16k
· thread_pool_workspace: 16k
· http_resp_size: 8k
· http_req_size: 12k
· gzip_stack_buffer: 4k
· thread_pool_stack: 64k
List of Parameters
This text is produced from the same text you will find in the CLI if
you use the param.show command:
accept_filter
· Units: bool
· Default: off
· Flags: must_restart
Enable kernel accept-filters (if available in the kernel).
acceptor_sleep_decay
· Default: 0.9
· Minimum: 0
· Maximum: 1
· Flags: experimental
If we run out of resources, such as file descriptors or worker threads,
the acceptor will sleep between accepts. This parameter (multiplica‐
tively) reduce the sleep duration for each successful accept. (ie: 0.9
= reduce by 10%)
acceptor_sleep_incr
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Maximum: 1.000
· Flags: experimental
If we run out of resources, such as file descriptors or worker threads,
the acceptor will sleep between accepts. This parameter control how
much longer we sleep, each time we fail to accept a new connection.
acceptor_sleep_max
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.050
· Minimum: 0.000
· Maximum: 10.000
· Flags: experimental
If we run out of resources, such as file descriptors or worker threads,
the acceptor will sleep between accepts. This parameter limits how
long it can sleep between attempts to accept new connections.
auto_restart
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Automatically restart the child/worker process if it dies.
backend_idle_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 1.000
Timeout before we close unused backend connections.
ban_dups
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Eliminate older identical bans when a new ban is added. This saves CPU
cycles by not comparing objects to identical bans. This is a waste of
time if you have many bans which are never identical.
ban_lurker_age
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
The ban lurker will ignore bans until they are this old. When a ban is
added, the active traffic will be tested against it as part of object
lookup. This parameter holds the ban-lurker off, until the rush is
over.
ban_lurker_batch
· Default: 1000
· Minimum: 1
The ban lurker sleeps ${ban_lurker_sleep} after examining this many
objects. Use this to pace the ban-lurker if it eats too many
resources.
ban_lurker_sleep
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.010
· Minimum: 0.000
How long the ban lurker sleeps after examining ${ban_lurker_batch}
objects. Use this to pace the ban-lurker if it eats too many
resources. A value of zero will disable the ban lurker entirely.
between_bytes_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
We only wait for this many seconds between bytes received from the
backend before giving up the fetch. A value of zero means never give
up. VCL values, per backend or per backend request take precedence.
This parameter does not apply to pipe'ed requests.
cc_command
· Default: "exec gcc -std=gnu99 -g-O2-Wall-Werror
-Wno-error=unused-result t-Werror t-Wall t-Wno-format-y2k t-W
t-Wstrict-prototypes t-Wmissing-prototypes t-Wpointer-arith t-Wre‐
turn-type t-Wcast-qual t-Wwrite-strings t-Wswitch t-Wshadow
t-Wunused-parameter t-Wcast-align t-Wchar-subscripts
t-Wnested-externs t-Wextra t-Wno-sign-compare -fstack-protector
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-address -Wno-missing-field-initializers
-pthread -fpic -shared -Wl,-x -o %o %s"
· Flags: must_reload
Command used for compiling the C source code to a dlopen(3) loadable
object. Any occurrence of %s in the string will be replaced with the
source file name, and %o will be replaced with the output file name.
cli_buffer
· Units: bytes
· Default: 8k
· Minimum: 4k
Size of buffer for CLI command input. You may need to increase this if
you have big VCL files and use the vcl.inline CLI command. NB: Must be
specified with -p to have effect.
cli_limit
· Units: bytes
· Default: 48k
· Minimum: 128b
· Maximum: 99999999b
Maximum size of CLI response. If the response exceeds this limit, the
response code will be 201 instead of 200 and the last line will indi‐
cate the truncation.
cli_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
Timeout for the childs replies to CLI requests from the mgt_param.
clock_skew
· Units: seconds
· Default: 10
· Minimum: 0
How much clockskew we are willing to accept between the backend and our
own clock.
connect_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 3.500
· Minimum: 0.000
Default connection timeout for backend connections. We only try to con‐
nect to the backend for this many seconds before giving up. VCL can
override this default value for each backend and backend request.
critbit_cooloff
· Units: seconds
· Default: 180.000
· Minimum: 60.000
· Maximum: 254.000
· Flags: wizard
How long the critbit hasher keeps deleted objheads on the cooloff list.
debug
· Default: none
Enable/Disable various kinds of debugging.
none Disable all debugging
Use +/- prefix to set/reset individual bits:
req_state
VSL Request state engine
workspace
VSL Workspace operations
waiter VSL Waiter internals
waitinglist
VSL Waitinglist events
syncvsl
Make VSL synchronous
hashedge
Edge cases in Hash
vclrel Rapid VCL release
lurker VSL Ban lurker
esi_chop
Chop ESI fetch to bits
flush_head
Flush after http1 head
vtc_mode
Varnishtest Mode
witness
Emit WITNESS lock records
vsm_keep
Keep the VSM file on restart
default_grace
· Units: seconds
· Default: 10.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: obj_sticky
Default grace period. We will deliver an object this long after it has
expired, provided another thread is attempting to get a new copy.
default_keep
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: obj_sticky
Default keep period. We will keep a useless object around this long,
making it available for conditional backend fetches. That means that
the object will be removed from the cache at the end of ttl+grace+keep.
default_ttl
· Units: seconds
· Default: 120.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: obj_sticky
The TTL assigned to objects if neither the backend nor the VCL code
assigns one.
feature
· Default: none
Enable/Disable various minor features.
none Disable all features.
Use +/- prefix to enable/disable individual feature:
short_panic
Short panic message.
wait_silo
Wait for persistent silo.
no_coredump
No coredumps.
esi_ignore_https
Treat HTTPS as HTTP in ESI:includes
esi_disable_xml_check
Don't check of body looks like XML
esi_ignore_other_elements
Ignore non-esi XML-elements
esi_remove_bom
Remove UTF-8 BOM
fetch_chunksize
· Units: bytes
· Default: 16k
· Minimum: 4k
· Flags: experimental
The default chunksize used by fetcher. This should be bigger than the
majority of objects with short TTLs. Internal limits in the stor‐
age_file module makes increases above 128kb a dubious idea.
fetch_maxchunksize
· Units: bytes
· Default: 0.25G
· Minimum: 64k
· Flags: experimental
The maximum chunksize we attempt to allocate from storage. Making this
too large may cause delays and storage fragmentation.
first_byte_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
Default timeout for receiving first byte from backend. We only wait for
this many seconds for the first byte before giving up. A value of 0
means it will never time out. VCL can override this default value for
each backend and backend request. This parameter does not apply to
pipe.
gzip_buffer
· Units: bytes
· Default: 32k
· Minimum: 2k
· Flags: experimental
Size of malloc buffer used for gzip processing. These buffers are used
for in-transit data, for instance gunzip'ed data being sent to a
client.Making this space to small results in more overhead, writes to
sockets etc, making it too big is probably just a waste of memory.
gzip_level
· Default: 6
· Minimum: 0
· Maximum: 9
Gzip compression level: 0=debug, 1=fast, 9=best
gzip_memlevel
· Default: 8
· Minimum: 1
· Maximum: 9
Gzip memory level 1=slow/least, 9=fast/most compression. Memory impact
is 1=1k, 2=2k, ... 9=256k.
http_gzip_support
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Enable gzip support. When enabled Varnish request compressed objects
from the backend and store them compressed. If a client does not sup‐
port gzip encoding Varnish will uncompress compressed objects on
demand. Varnish will also rewrite the Accept-Encoding header of clients
indicating support for gzip to:
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Clients that do not support gzip will have their Accept-Encoding header
removed. For more information on how gzip is implemented please see the
chapter on gzip in the Varnish reference.
http_max_hdr
· Units: header lines
· Default: 64
· Minimum: 32
· Maximum: 65535
Maximum number of HTTP header lines we allow in
{req|resp|bereq|beresp}.http (obj.http is autosized to the exact number
of headers). Cheap, ~20 bytes, in terms of workspace memory. Note
that the first line occupies five header lines.
http_range_support
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Enable support for HTTP Range headers.
http_req_hdr_len
· Units: bytes
· Default: 8k
· Minimum: 40b
Maximum length of any HTTP client request header we will allow. The
limit is inclusive its continuation lines.
http_req_size
· Units: bytes
· Default: 32k
· Minimum: 0.25k
Maximum number of bytes of HTTP client request we will deal with. This
is a limit on all bytes up to the double blank line which ends the HTTP
request. The memory for the request is allocated from the client
workspace (param: workspace_client) and this parameter limits how much
of that the request is allowed to take up.
http_resp_hdr_len
· Units: bytes
· Default: 8k
· Minimum: 40b
Maximum length of any HTTP backend response header we will allow. The
limit is inclusive its continuation lines.
http_resp_size
· Units: bytes
· Default: 32k
· Minimum: 0.25k
Maximum number of bytes of HTTP backend response we will deal with.
This is a limit on all bytes up to the double blank line which ends the
HTTP request. The memory for the request is allocated from the backend
workspace (param: workspace_backend) and this parameter limits how much
of that the request is allowed to take up.
idle_send_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: delayed
Time to wait with no data sent. If no data has been transmitted in this
many seconds the session is closed. See setsockopt(2) under SO_SND‐
TIMEO for more information.
listen_depth
· Units: connections
· Default: 1024
· Minimum: 0
· Flags: must_restart
Listen queue depth.
lru_interval
· Units: seconds
· Default: 2.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: experimental
Grace period before object moves on LRU list. Objects are only moved
to the front of the LRU list if they have not been moved there already
inside this timeout period. This reduces the amount of lock operations
necessary for LRU list access.
max_esi_depth
· Units: levels
· Default: 5
· Minimum: 0
Maximum depth of esi:include processing.
max_restarts
· Units: restarts
· Default: 4
· Minimum: 0
Upper limit on how many times a request can restart. Be aware that
restarts are likely to cause a hit against the backend, so don't
increase thoughtlessly.
max_retries
· Units: retries
· Default: 4
· Minimum: 0
Upper limit on how many times a backend fetch can retry.
nuke_limit
· Units: allocations
· Default: 50
· Minimum: 0
· Flags: experimental
Maximum number of objects we attempt to nuke in order to make space for
a object body.
pcre_match_limit
· Default: 10000
· Minimum: 1
The limit for the number of calls to the internal match() function in
pcre_exec().
(See: PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT in pcre docs.)
This parameter limits how much CPU time regular expression matching can
soak up.
pcre_match_limit_recursion
· Default: 20
· Minimum: 1
The recursion depth-limit for the internal match() function in a
pcre_exec().
(See: PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION in pcre docs.)
This puts an upper limit on the amount of stack used by PCRE for cer‐
tain classes of regular expressions.
We have set the default value low in order to prevent crashes, at the
cost of possible regexp matching failures.
Matching failures will show up in the log as VCL_Error messages with
regexp errors -27 or -21.
Testcase r01576 can be useful when tuning this parameter.
ping_interval
· Units: seconds
· Default: 3
· Minimum: 0
· Flags: must_restart
Interval between pings from parent to child. Zero will disable pinging
entirely, which makes it possible to attach a debugger to the child.
pipe_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 60.000
· Minimum: 0.000
Idle timeout for PIPE sessions. If nothing have been received in either
direction for this many seconds, the session is closed.
pool_req
· Default: 10,100,10
Parameters for per worker pool request memory pool. The three numbers
are:
min_pool
minimum size of free pool.
max_pool
maximum size of free pool.
max_age
max age of free element.
pool_sess
· Default: 10,100,10
Parameters for per worker pool session memory pool. The three numbers
are:
min_pool
minimum size of free pool.
max_pool
maximum size of free pool.
max_age
max age of free element.
pool_vbo
· Default: 10,100,10
Parameters for backend object fetch memory pool. The three numbers
are:
min_pool
minimum size of free pool.
max_pool
maximum size of free pool.
max_age
max age of free element.
prefer_ipv6
· Units: bool
· Default: off
Prefer IPv6 address when connecting to backends which have both IPv4
and IPv6 addresses.
rush_exponent
· Units: requests per request
· Default: 3
· Minimum: 2
· Flags: experimental
How many parked request we start for each completed request on the
object. NB: Even with the implict delay of delivery, this parameter
controls an exponential increase in number of worker threads.
send_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 600.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: delayed
Send timeout for client connections. If the HTTP response hasn't been
transmitted in this many seconds the session is closed. See setsock‐
opt(2) under SO_SNDTIMEO for more information.
session_max
· Units: sessions
· Default: 100000
· Minimum: 1000
Maximum number of sessions we will allocate from one pool before just
dropping connections. This is mostly an anti-DoS measure, and setting
it plenty high should not hurt, as long as you have the memory for it.
shm_reclen
· Units: bytes
· Default: 255b
· Minimum: 16b
· Maximum: 4084
Old name for vsl_reclen, use that instead.
shortlived
· Units: seconds
· Default: 10.000
· Minimum: 0.000
Objects created with (ttl+grace+keep) shorter than this are always put
in transient storage.
sigsegv_handler
· Units: bool
· Default: on
· Flags: must_restart
Install a signal handler which tries to dump debug information on seg‐
mentation faults, bus errors and abort signals.
syslog_cli_traffic
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Log all CLI traffic to syslog(LOG_INFO).
tcp_keepalive_intvl
· Units: seconds
· Default: 75.000
· Minimum: 1.000
· Maximum: 100.000
· Flags: experimental
The number of seconds between TCP keep-alive probes.
tcp_keepalive_probes
· Units: probes
· Default: 9
· Minimum: 1
· Maximum: 100
· Flags: experimental
The maximum number of TCP keep-alive probes to send before giving up
and killing the connection if no response is obtained from the other
end.
tcp_keepalive_time
· Units: seconds
· Default: 7200.000
· Minimum: 1.000
· Maximum: 7200.000
· Flags: experimental
The number of seconds a connection needs to be idle before TCP begins
sending out keep-alive probes.
thread_pool_add_delay
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.000
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: experimental
Wait at least this long after creating a thread.
Some (buggy) systems may need a short (sub-second) delay between creat‐
ing threads. Set this to a few milliseconds if you see the
'threads_failed' counter grow too much.
Setting this too high results in insuffient worker threads.
thread_pool_destroy_delay
· Units: seconds
· Default: 1.000
· Minimum: 0.010
· Flags: delayed, experimental
Wait this long after destroying a thread.
This controls the decay of thread pools when idle(-ish).
thread_pool_fail_delay
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.200
· Minimum: 0.010
· Flags: experimental
Wait at least this long after a failed thread creation before trying to
create another thread.
Failure to create a worker thread is often a sign that the end is
near, because the process is running out of some resource. This delay
tries to not rush the end on needlessly.
If thread creation failures are a problem, check that thread_pool_max
is not too high.
It may also help to increase thread_pool_timeout and thread_pool_min,
to reduce the rate at which treads are destroyed and later recreated.
thread_pool_max
· Units: threads
· Default: 5000
· Minimum: 100
· Flags: delayed
The maximum number of worker threads in each pool.
Do not set this higher than you have to, since excess worker threads
soak up RAM and CPU and generally just get in the way of getting work
done.
thread_pool_min
· Units: threads
· Default: 100
· Maximum: 5000
· Flags: delayed
The minimum number of worker threads in each pool.
Increasing this may help ramp up faster from low load situations or
when threads have expired.
Minimum is 10 threads.
thread_pool_stack
· Units: bytes
· Default: 48k
· Minimum: 16k
· Flags: experimental
Worker thread stack size. This will likely be rounded up to a multiple
of 4k (or whatever the page_size might be) by the kernel.
thread_pool_timeout
· Units: seconds
· Default: 300.000
· Minimum: 10.000
· Flags: delayed, experimental
Thread idle threshold.
Threads in excess of thread_pool_min, which have been idle for at least
this long, will be destroyed.
thread_pools
· Units: pools
· Default: 2
· Minimum: 1
· Flags: delayed, experimental
Number of worker thread pools.
Increasing number of worker pools decreases lock contention.
Too many pools waste CPU and RAM resources, and more than one pool for
each CPU is probably detrimal to performance.
Can be increased on the fly, but decreases require a restart to take
effect.
thread_queue_limit
· Default: 20
· Minimum: 0
· Flags: experimental
Permitted queue length per thread-pool.
This sets the number of requests we will queue, waiting for an avail‐
able thread. Above this limit sessions will be dropped instead of
queued.
thread_stats_rate
· Units: requests
· Default: 10
· Minimum: 0
· Flags: experimental
Worker threads accumulate statistics, and dump these into the global
stats counters if the lock is free when they finish a job
(request/fetch etc.) This parameters defines the maximum number of
jobs a worker thread may handle, before it is forced to dump its accu‐
mulated stats into the global counters.
timeout_idle
· Units: seconds
· Default: 5.000
· Minimum: 0.000
Idle timeout for client connections. A connection is considered idle,
until we have received the full request headers.
timeout_linger
· Units: seconds
· Default: 0.050
· Minimum: 0.000
· Flags: experimental
How long the worker thread lingers on an idle session before handing it
over to the waiter. When sessions are reused, as much as half of all
reuses happen within the first 100 msec of the previous request com‐
pleting. Setting this too high results in worker threads not doing
anything for their keep, setting it too low just means that more ses‐
sions take a detour around the waiter.
vcc_allow_inline_c
· Units: bool
· Default: off
Allow inline C code in VCL.
vcc_err_unref
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Unreferenced VCL objects result in error.
vcc_unsafe_path
· Units: bool
· Default: on
Allow '/' in vmod & include paths. Allow 'import ... from ...'.
vcl_cooldown
· Units: seconds
· Default: 600.000
· Minimum: 0.000
How long a VCL is kept warm after being replaced as the active VCL
(granularity approximately 30 seconds).
vcl_dir
· Default: /opt/varnish/etc/varnish
Directory (or colon separated list of directories) from which relative
VCL filenames (vcl.load and include) are to be found.
vmod_dir
· Default: /opt/varnish/lib/varnish/vmods
Directory (or colon separated list of directories) where VMODs are to
be found.
vsl_buffer
· Units: bytes
· Default: 4k
· Minimum: 267
Bytes of (req-/backend-)workspace dedicated to buffering VSL records.
Setting this too high costs memory, setting it too low will cause more
VSL flushes and likely increase lock-contention on the VSL mutex.
The minimum tracks the vsl_reclen parameter + 12 bytes.
vsl_mask
· Default: -VCL_trace,-WorkThread,-Hash,-VfpAcct
Mask individual VSL messages from being logged.
default
Set default value
Use +/- prefix in front of VSL tag name, to mask/unmask individual VSL
messages.
vsl_reclen
· Units: bytes
· Default: 255b
· Minimum: 16b
· Maximum: 4084b
Maximum number of bytes in SHM log record.
The maximum tracks the vsl_buffer parameter - 12 bytes.
vsl_space
· Units: bytes
· Default: 80M
· Minimum: 1M
· Flags: must_restart
The amount of space to allocate for the VSL fifo buffer in the VSM mem‐
ory segment. If you make this too small, varnish{ncsa|log} etc will
not be able to keep up. Making it too large just costs memory
resources.
vsm_space
· Units: bytes
· Default: 1M
· Minimum: 1M
· Flags: must_restart
The amount of space to allocate for stats counters in the VSM memory
segment. If you make this too small, some counters will be invisible.
Making it too large just costs memory resources.
workspace_backend
· Units: bytes
· Default: 64k
· Minimum: 1k
· Flags: delayed
Bytes of HTTP protocol workspace for backend HTTP req/resp. If larger
than 4k, use a multiple of 4k for VM efficiency.
workspace_client
· Units: bytes
· Default: 64k
· Minimum: 9k
· Flags: delayed
Bytes of HTTP protocol workspace for clients HTTP req/resp. If larger
than 4k, use a multiple of 4k for VM efficiency.
workspace_session
· Units: bytes
· Default: 0.50k
· Minimum: 0.25k
· Flags: delayed
Allocation size for session structure and workspace. The workspace
is primarily used for TCP connection addresses. If larger than 4k, use
a multiple of 4k for VM efficiency.
workspace_thread
· Units: bytes
· Default: 2k
· Minimum: 0.25k
· Maximum: 8k
· Flags: delayed
Bytes of auxiliary workspace per thread. This workspace is used for
certain temporary data structures during the operation of a worker
thread. One use is for the io-vectors for writing requests and
responses to sockets, having too little space will result in more
writev(2) system calls, having too much just wastes the space.
EXIT CODES
Varnish and bundled tools will, in most cases, exit with one of the
following codes
· 0 OK
· 1 Some error which could be system-dependent and/or transient
· 2 Serious configuration / parameter error - retrying with the same
configuration / parameters is most likely useless
The varnishd master process may also OR its exit code
· with 0x20 when the varnishd child process died,
· with 0x40 when the varnishd child process was terminated by a signal
and
· with 0x80 when a core was dumped.
SEE ALSO
· varnishlog(1)
· varnishhist(1)
· varnishncsa(1)
· varnishstat(1)
· varnishtop(1)
· varnish-cli(7)
· vcl(7)HISTORY
The varnishd daemon was developed by Poul-Henning Kamp in cooperation
with Verdens Gang AS and Varnish Software.
This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav with updates by
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@debian.org>, Nils Goroll and others.
COPYRIGHT
This document is licensed under the same licence as Varnish itself. See
LICENCE for details.
· Copyright (c) 2007-2015 Varnish Software AS
VARNISHD(1)
