maximum number of records?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> "Edwin R. Rivera" <nntp at edwinrivera.com> wrote in message news:<ane2cr$7ecr$1
> @isrv4.isc.org>...
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've been asked to bring up several potential problems in building a name
> > server, that, theoretically, would hold 1,000,000 records.
> > 
> > What would be the limitations/problems someone one experience and perhaps
> > some solutions to these problems?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help with this.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Edwin
> 
> well, i've bind9 running for 45k zones and while it's running
> everything is ok, but when i need to stop/start named it takes about
> half an hour when completely finished and meanwhile it won't react to
> anything...
> and when i do a rndc reconfig it's offline for about 45sec.
> all running on a dedicated sun e450 2 cpu machine.
> so, i guess serving 1M zones will be a little challenge ;-)
> 
	1 M records != 1 M zones.

	1 M records in a single zone take ~100 MB of ram in the server
	(200 while reloading / transfering in).

	Mark
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