Re: Memory Leaking. Help!

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:30:08 +0200 (CEST)


> > > 10 Days ago I installed DNS and DHCPd servers from RedHat and noticed that
> > > "top" shows the amount of consumed memory is slowly and constantly
> > > growing. Machine became unstable and a few users complained that their
> > > files disappeared. ( we have good backup ). I re-booted 4 days ago and now
> > > it looks it is doing it again. Could this be BIND?
> >
> > Wildly improbable. Slow shifts in memory usage occur naturally so don't be
> > totally mislead by it. Named for example will grow and shrink over time
> > according to what it has cached and what people asked for.
>
> But it took half of my swap (4GB) as well. A bit too much
> for a little bind. How to explain this?
>

Bind can be greedy on memory usage. Upgrade to 9.2.0, and set
max-cache-size to limit it :-)

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.

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