How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?

[Andy Spiers]

At 01:21 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Gildas PERROT wrote:
>I am using bind8.2.2p5 as a primary server on Solaris 2.6. I found
>that the cache is growing a lot and sometimes it would be good to
>clean it by a restart. How often is it suggested to restart it ?

You should never have to restart bind periodically. Just set a limit on the 
amount of memory used by the RR cache by using data-size in the options 
section of named.conf. For example:

options {
         // your normal options here

         // limit memory usage to 64MB
         data-size 64M;

};

More details at:
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/options.html

Andy