Bind9(9.3.2p1) "out of memory"

[Adam Young]

Hey guys/girls,

I've limited my package of bind9 to 3GB of memory for cache using
'max-cache-size'.

However today, I attempted to make a change and reload the configuration and
received the following:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/rndc reload
rndc: 'reload' failed: out of memory

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
24677 bind      25   0 3068m 2.9g 2336 S 99.9 73.6   1567:08 named

$ uname -a
Linux ns1 2.6.17-i686 #1 SMP Mon Jul 31 14:27:54 EDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Any idea why limiting cache size, should have any effect on the ability to
reload your configuration?

Thanks,

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Adam Young
Systems Support Technologist
Mountain Cablevision Ltd.
(905)667-7436