Memory

[Mark Andrews]

> I have bind9-9.3.1 and FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
> 
> Named.conf:
> 
> options {
>         directory "/opt/sys/namedb";
>         allow-recursion {acl;};
>         max-ncache-ttl 3600;
>         max-cache-ttl 36000;
>         recursive-clients 5000;
>         dump-file "run/named_dump.db";
>         max-cache-size 200M;
>         transfers-in 20;
>         transfers-out 30;
>        };
> 
> 
> In top I saw:
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 66201 root     119    0   377M   328M RUN    175:07  0.00%  0.00% named
> 
> Can anybody ask me, from where this 128M in memory?
> Cashe in config only 200M.

	The amount of active memory in the cache is limited to 200M.
	The rest is malloc overhead.  Clients and other data structures
	etc.
        
> -- 
> Yours sincerely,
>    Vasilyev Igor                    mailto:vasilyev_igor at inbox.ru
> 
> 
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