Named recycled?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <890B12B8398AD211BC6100805FA784A205383877 at es04snlnt.sandia.gov>,
Cinense, Mark <macinen at sandia.gov> wrote:
>	Does anyone know if it is bad to not cycle the named service.  Is it
>designed to run without restarting it once in a while.  Would I want to do
>something like that?

It should not normally need to be restarted, unless your system is short on
RAM.  In that case, you may need to restart it to clear out the cache,
since performance suffers severely if it can't keep the entire cache in RAM.

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