UDP packet loss

[Pavel Urban]

> Something that I have not seen mentioned yet.  Bind tries to cache a lot
> of data in memory.  If there is not enough memory, it may start to
> page/swap.  If it does that, the performance will be terrible.  That
> could cause bind to fall behind and the queries to pile up.  Check on
> how much paging/swapping your system is doing.
> 

4GB of RAM is free all the time.

top - 21:02:00 up 45 days,  4:46,  1 user,  load average: 2.44, 1.69, 1.29
Tasks:  58 total,   1 running,  57 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 28.4% us,  3.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 67.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   6105240k total,  1812744k used,  4292496k free,   112084k buffers
Swap:  6289436k total,        0k used,  6289436k free,   585236k cached


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