Memory Reduction

[Nick Nauwelaerts]

On 20 Aug 2002 21:57:11 +0000
Frank <Frank at duranicub.sytes.net> wrote:

> 
> Am Die, 2002-08-20 um 19.30 schrieb Pete Ehlke:
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> The Problem is, named eats always more Usage ... even if i set
> coresize 5M; datasize 5M; stacksize 5M;
> 
> there is running, Postfix, Apache, Courier-Imap/sqwebmail, NFS,Proftpd
> ...
> 
> but the Mainpoint for me is the HIGH Memory Usage of Named. How said,
> if i restart named, the swapping goes by.