max-cache-size (was: no subject)

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> At Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:44:34 +0200,
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
> > or bind will eat as
> > much of ram as possible, without expiring old entries?

On 23.06.08 12:17, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> It *could* be possible, but is not a realistic case.  First, there's a
> default max-cache-size (32MB) as of 9.5.  So the memory footprint is
> controlled by default.
> 
> Second, expired entries are still examined and purged when a new cache
> entry is inserted.  This cleanup is not based on full search of the
> cache DB, so it's still possible the memory footprint is still
> (seemingly) growing uncontrollably, if you explicitly set
> max-cache-size to unlimited and there are so many cache entries that
> have very large TTLs.  In practice, however, I believe it should be
> rare enough that we don't have to worry about it.

Is this behaviour much different from bind 9.4? My caches (9.4.1p1) now use
~800MiB of RAM and it seems not to be increasing much over time.

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