memory leak or other problem
David Filion
df at auto123.com
Mon Oct 1 12:25:23 UTC 2007
David wrote:
> Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>> I have a strange problem with my bind servers where the process runs
>> great until the memory usage gets very high. I am running CentOS 4.5 and
>> the latest version of Bind for that distribution bind-9.2.4-24. On one
>> of my servers there is not enough RAM in the system and about every 24
>> hours I have to restart the bind server. After I restart everything runs
>> great until I get to about 80% memory usage.
>>
>> The same problem happens on my other 2 servers but they have 2 and 4 GB
>> of memory so this takes much longer. When the memory usage gets to
>> around 80% or more the dns server stops responding and I get a
>> notification from my nagios monitoring system.
>>
>> Has anybody experienced this and if so what have you done to fix it? I
>> would like to just let these servers run and not have to worry about
>> them. I do realize I could just restart them every day but this is only
>> gonna work as long as they don't have to be restarted more then once a
>> day which for now is ok. I would like to find a more permanent solution
>> and more insight into what is causing this.
>>
>> Thanks for any help. I searched google long and hard and have not found
>> anything that really helped.
>>
>
> We are seeing something similar on one our SLES 10 boxes
> (bind-9.3.2-17.15). The server in question is a secondary DNS. Every
> 40 minutes it gets reloaded to pick up any new zones. named's memory
> foot print just keeps growing until it stops responding.
>
> The primary DNS server, also SLES 10 - same bind version, does not show
> this problem. Unlike the secondary DNS server, the primary DNS server
> only gets reloaded by hand, not automatically.
>
> I've disabled the automatic reloads on the secondary dns to see if it is
> the cause of the problem.
>
> I'll try lowering the TTL and setting the memory cache size as Florian
> Weimer suggested and see if it makes and improvement.
>
> As a side note, I just noticed that with every DNS message getting
> logged (FORMERR, lame server resolving, SERVFAIL, etc) the memory
> footprint is growing.
>
>
>
> David Filion
>
>
>
>
Any updates on this issue? One of our DNS stopped responding and Bind
needed to be restarted to get it answering again.
David Filion
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