Bind growth

[Roy Arends]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Tom Nichols wrote:

> We have three basic DNS servers (BSDI 4.2) running Bind 8.2, 8.2, and
> 9.1

8.2 as in 8.2.3-REL ?
9.1 as in 9.1.1-rc5 ?

> The first is a primary, the other two are secondaries.
> 
> We experience growth on the secondaries.
> 
> To explain, running TOP on each system gives the following results:
> (yesterday, today)
> 
> 1st                     2nd                      3td
> 5104   4996             6116    6250             2480   2520
> 5104   4996             6440    6532             2736   2780
> 
> The first line is yesterday morning's data. The second, today. As you
> can see, the primary is unchanged. That server hasn't been rebooted in
> over 60 days. As a primary, we add to the DNS database and perform
> kill -SIGHUP xxx on a daily basis.

Why not use the cleaner "ndc reload" on the primary ?

> The other two will dump named.core after a few days of run time.

Are both secondary's configured so they won't cache anything ? (recursion
no, fetch-glue no). Are both secondaries only slave for your master, or
other masters as well ?

Regards 

Roy Arends
Nominum