Memory Reduction
Pete Ehlke
pde at ehlke.net
Tue Aug 20 19:30:03 UTC 2002
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:55:55PM +0000, Frank wrote:
>
> Am Die, 2002-08-20 um 18.49 schrieb Pete Ehlke:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:37:42PM +0000, Frank wrote:
> > >
> > > please how can i reduce the Memory allocation of a Bind 9.21
> > > caching-only Server reducing ?
> > >
> > > 25459 named 15 0 37548 36M 1908 S 0,0 14,6 0:00 named
> > > 25460 named 15 0 37548 36M 1908 S 0,0 14,6 0:51 named
> > > 25461 named 15 0 37548 36M 1908 S 0,0 14,6 0:00 named
> > > 25462 named 15 0 37548 36M 1908 S 0,0 14,6 0:00 named
> > > 25457 named 16 0 37548 36M 1908 S 0,0 14,6 0:00 named
> > >
> > > restarted, about 2 minutes. most it has much more memory in use.
> > >
> > Looks like you're running linux. Remember that linux shows threads as
> > processes, so if you're adding all those memory totals together, you're
> > getting a figure that's five times as large as the real memory usage on
> > this machine.
> >
> > For a caching server in use in a corporate environment, that's not all
> > that much memory usage. How much ram is in the machine?
>
> 256MB
>
> it swaps to ~60MB, but if i /etc/init.d/named restart the Swap Usage is
> only 5MB. I heard about djbdns, because for a cachning ONLY Server its
> me to much wastefulness.
>
36 Mb on a 256 Mb machine is quite light for a resolver host. If it's
causing you to page (or even to swap), something else is eating an awful
lot of memory. What else do you have running on this machine?
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