savehash: Cannot allocate memory on bind 8.2.3 (Linux)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Hi there - does anyone know the cause of the error message `savehash: Cannot
> allocate memory`?  For some reason my dns box keeps crashing with this error
> message in /var/log/messages.  Initially I thought this may be memory
> problem (i.e. simply not enough) - but having upgraded the machine I don't
> think this can be the case.

	Well it is "simply not enough".  What's the per process limit
	set to?  Use "options { datasize #; };"  to raise it.

> 
> I'm using bind 8.2.3 on a Linux box running as named:named.  I don't think
> this is an OS limitation as /etc/security/limits.conf is empty?
> 
> If anyone has had this problem before I would be all :--)) at any info.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kev.
> 
> --
> Kevin Donnelly
> Broadband Systems Support Engineer
> Video Networks Ltd.
> 
> 
> 
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