How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?
pwolfe at qred.quintiles.com
pwolfe at qred.quintiles.com
Wed Feb 9 17:59:53 UTC 2000
So should a cronjob be set to monitor the limit and restart named when the limit
is reaching its max.?
Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> on 09/02/2000 16:56:18
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
cc: (bcc: Philip Wolfe/QRED/Quintiles)
Subject: Re: How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?
In article <4.2.0.58.20000209145832.03d291e0 at pop3.mailbox.co.uk>,
Andy Spiers <andy at centralnic.com> wrote:
>
>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:
What do you think happens when it reaches that limit? I'll tell you: named
crashes and you have to restart it.
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