dnsperf and BIND memory consumption

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:26:07 -0400,
Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:

> I received the following message from someone with some possible
> insight to what could be causing this. I have no knowledge of the
> BIND source code or structure, nor have I looked for the call this
> is referring to in the source code, so I'm just passing this on for
> possible research by ISC to see if it possibly applied to FreeBSD
> threading and if it may be the solution to the memory leak that's
> been observed by some people in BIND 9.5 on certain operating
> systems.

Thanks, but I suspect this matters only when a threaded process forks
many times during its own lifetime, which isn't the case for BIND9
named.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.