[Varnish] #837: varnishadm purge.list fails frequently

[Varnish]

#837: varnishadm purge.list fails frequently
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 Reporter:  jelder    |       Owner:  kristian         
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  After Varnish 2.1
Component:  varnishd  |     Version:  trunk            
 Severity:  normal    |    Keywords:  purge.list       
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Changes (by kristian):

  * owner:  phk => kristian


Comment:

 Can you try if it fails in telnet too? You may have to disable the secret
 file to test it.

 Chances are you are running out of cli buffer-space. While you can adjust
 this with cli_buffer, that's obviously not a perfect solution when you
 have 11.5k purges.

 What I do suggest is using "smart bans" and the ban lurker, though, to
 keep the ban list shorter: http://kristianlyng.wordpress.com/2010/07/28
 /smart-bans-with-varnish/ - it's not a solution to the freezing CLI, but
 it might be a work-around (and possibly a performance/utilization boost).

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