named out of swap on NetBSD/amd64

Jan Schaumann jschauma at netmeister.org
Wed Feb 15 20:46:43 UTC 2023


Greg Choules <gregchoules+bindusers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Point taken. Unique does not necessarily mean non-existent and *something*
> will end up in cache. So restricting your max-cache-size would seem to be
> the thing for you. If it were my server, I would monitor just how much RAM
> is getting used in total and adjust max-cache-size to allow BIND to use as
> much RAM as you can afford. That way you minimise the frequency of cache
> cleaning, which is an overhead.

Yep.  And in the process I learned a bit about tuning
bind, so it's all good.

Thanks for the help!
-Jan


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