dnsperf and BIND memory consumption

Vinny Abello vinny at tellurian.com
Thu Aug 7 14:43:17 UTC 2008


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> > I saw Danny state that Windows just had a fix made in regards to a
> memory leak specific to Windows socket code, but I'm wondering if what
> I
> was seeing was related to threads on Windows as well. I guess it's hard
> to tell without the fixed socket code to test with. I would recommend
> playing with dnsperf though to see if ISC can reproduce this with
> threads enabled.
>
> dnsperf was used to test the Windows code and was instrumental in
> detecting the problem. Since the sockets code leak was fixed there are
> no memory leaks seen.

That's great to hear, Danny... I'm assuming this fix will be in the next upcoming betas for Windows or will it be in the Windows specific release that is said to be coming very soon?

-Vinny



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