GENERATE and memory consumption
C. Weber
cwf-ml at arcor.de
Tue Oct 11 19:50:20 UTC 2005
Hello,
a few of our binds running on somewhat elderly hardware
started swapping recently. The culprit are our pool zones
(forward es well as reverse), whose entries number in
the high 6 figures, low 7 figures range and keep
growing over time.
Right now those zones are auto-generated by our
provisioning software.
One of the things I looked into because of this
problem is the $GENERATE directive.
I have not found any conclusive information on its
direct memory inpact; from what I've read I infer there
is none - it just creates those entries when the zone
file is read.
Is my assumption correct ?
Is anybody aware of other approaches to this problem - or
is buying memory and upgrading to a 64bit OS just cheaper ?
Regards
Christoph Weber-Fahr
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