How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?

[Steve Snyder]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:55:39 +0000, Andy Spiers wrote:

>
>At 01:21 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Gildas PERROT wrote:
>>I am using bind8.2.2p5 as a primary server on Solaris 2.6. I found
>>that the cache is growing a lot and sometimes it would be good to
>>clean it by a restart. How often is it suggested to restart it ?
>
>You should never have to restart bind periodically. Just set a limit on the 
>amount of memory used by the RR cache by using data-size in the options 
>section of named.conf. For example:
>
>options {
>         // your normal options here
>
>         // limit memory usage to 64MB
>         data-size 64M;
>
>};

1. The actual option name is "datasize", no hyphen.

2. What happens when the max size is reached?  Are older data cleaned 
out when new data arrives?


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