Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:30:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: Memory Leaking. Help! |
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> > > 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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