How to limit memory use for cache?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Mar 23 21:28:53 UTC 2000


In article <8bct42$dbc$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <baccou at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I'm using Bind 8 and I want to limit the memory used by BIND to manage
>the cache. How can I do this?

Use the "datasize" option.  If the named process tries to grow beyond that,
it will exit.  You'll need to implement some mechanism of your own to
restart it when that happens.

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