BIND 9.1.1 binary size seems to have ballooned?

[Toshio Kumagai]

Ron,

	For your information (3 days after restart).
	Most part of the size is from heap (maybe cache)
	and shared library.
	6 threads running this moment.

# uname -a
SunOS ns.Kumasan.ORG 5.8 Generic_108529-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
# ls -l /usr/local/sbin/named
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root     other    2172632 Mar 30 07:36 /usr/local/sbin/named
# /usr/ccs/bin/size /usr/local/sbin/named
221473 + 3740 + 2532 = 227745
# /usr/local/sbin/named -v
BIND 9.1.1
# /usr/ucb/ps -auxww | grep named | grep -v grep
bind       184  0.0  4.5 6576 5368 ?        S   Apr 13  1:07 \
	/usr/local/sbin/named -t /home/named -u bind
# uptime
  1:25pm  up 3 day(s),  2:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01
#  /usr/proc/bin/pmap -x 184
184:    /usr/local/sbin/named -t /home/named -u bind
 Address   Kbytes Resident Shared Private Permissions       Mapped File
08044000      16      16       -      16 read/write          [ stack ]
08050000     220     220       4     216 read/exec         named
08096000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   named
08097000    2908    2908       -    2908 read/write/exec     [ heap ]
DEC01000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DED02000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DEE03000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DEF04000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF005000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF106000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF205000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF207000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF306000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF308000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF407000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF682000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF692000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF6B0000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF6D0000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF6EB000      24      24       -      24 read/write          [ anon ]
DF700000      20      20      16       4 read/exec         nss_files.so.1
DF715000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   nss_files.so.1
DF720000       4       4       4       - read/write/exec/shared   [ anon ]
DF734000       4       4       -       4 read/write          [ anon ]
DF740000       4       4       4       - read/write/exec/shared   [ anon ]
DF750000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec     [ anon ]
DF760000      12      12       8       4 read/exec         libmp.so.2
DF773000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   libmp.so.2
DF780000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec     [ anon ]
DF790000     528     528     460      68 read/exec         libc.so.1
DF824000      24      24       -      24 read/write/exec   libc.so.1
DF82A000       8       8       -       8 read/write/exec   libc.so.1
DF830000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec     [ anon ]
DF840000     192     188       -     188 read/exec         libisc.so.3.0.0
DF87F000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   libisc.so.3.0.0
DF890000    1488    1180       -    1180 read/exec         libdns.so.4.0.0
DFA13000      40      40       -      40 read/write/exec   libdns.so.4.0.0
DFA1D000      12       8       -       8 read/write/exec   libdns.so.4.0.0
DFA30000      60      60       -      60 read/exec         libomapi.so.3.0.0
DFA4E000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   libomapi.so.3.0.0
DFA60000     100     100      96       4 read/exec         libthread.so.1
DFA89000       8       8       -       8 read/write/exec   libthread.so.1
DFA8B000      44      40       -      40 read/write/exec   libthread.so.1
DFAA0000      20      20      16       4 read/exec         libpthread.so.1
DFAB5000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   libpthread.so.1
DFAC0000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec     [ anon ]
DFAD0000      40      40      36       4 read/exec         libsocket.so.1
DFAEA000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   libsocket.so.1
DFAF0000     460     460     240     220 read/exec         libnsl.so.1
DFB73000      24      24       -      24 read/write/exec   libnsl.so.1
DFB79000      28      12       -      12 read/write/exec   libnsl.so.1
DFB90000      52      52       -      52 read/exec         liblwres.so.1.1.0
DFBAC000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   liblwres.so.1.1.0
DFBB0000       4       4       -       4 read/exec         libdl.so.1
DFBC0000     112     112     108       4 read/exec         ld.so.1
DFBEC000       8       8       -       8 read/write/exec   ld.so.1
DFBEE000       4       4       -       4 read/write/exec   ld.so.1
--------  ------  ------  ------  ------
total Kb    6576    6240     992    5248
#

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Ronnie Corny wrote:
> 
> I just compiled BIND 9.1.1 on OpenBSD 2.8 and also on Solaris7 SPARC and it
> seems that the binary sizes for 9.1.1 has ballooned to approximately 8MB per
> binary as compared to a few hundred KB for 9.1.1rc3...
> I just did a routine ./configure and make in the distribution as with previous
> releases and made no changes...
> 
> anyone else encountered this?  or is something wrong with my setup?
> 
> aside from the size of the binaries, the system seems to work properly (i.e.,
> named9.1.1 loads properly and exchanges zone info with other servers)...
> 
> thanks...
> 
> rgds,
> 
> - ron

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  Toshio Kumagai	(Toshio_Kumagai at Kumasan.ORG), Japan