Bind V9 and hosting lots of Domains

[Gareth Houghton]

<Mark.Andrews at nominum.com> wrote in message
news:200002120023.LAA22473 at bsdi.dv.isc.org...
> To help you at the moment change the definition of NEWZONES in
> ns_defs.h to something bigger than 64, 8192 might be a more
> appropriate value in your situation.

We host around 200,000 zones. So as recommended I increased NEWZONES to
32768. This as well as compiling Bind with optimisation turned on has almost
halved our start times on the servers. It has quiet significantly reduced
our memory usage as well(only 200MB now).

thanks

gareth