BIND 'max-cache-size' Value on FreeBSD-13.0

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Wed Feb 16 15:50:20 UTC 2022



On 2/16/22 17:15, Borja Marcos wrote:

> Now I have 9.11.36, 9.16.24 and 9.18.0
>
> What I have noticed with 9.18.0, which is running on the heaviest loaded server, is less memory footprint.
>
> I started it on Monday and according to top it’s taking 486 MB (SIZE) - 375 MB (RES). And the memory pressure
> is much less.
>
> It’a working fine but in ISCs tradition of squeezing bad practices it will give you errors for misconfigured domains. I have had to
> add some “server” clauses disabling cookies and all that.
>
> I am updating the server running 9.16.24 to .25. Let’s see how it goes.
>
> Running 9.16.24 it takes 1462 MB (size) - 1233 MB (res). I restarted named on 17th January.
>
> The load is not exactly the same. They are both part of an anyast pool, but one of them gets more email server requests while the
> other one receives mostly customer queries.

Awesome feedback! Thanks, Borja :-).

Keen to hear what you see re: 9.16.25.

Mark.


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