How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?
Andy Spiers
andy at centralnic.com
Wed Feb 9 15:55:39 UTC 2000
At 01:21 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Gildas PERROT wrote:
>I am using bind8.2.2p5 as a primary server on Solaris 2.6. I found
>that the cache is growing a lot and sometimes it would be good to
>clean it by a restart. How often is it suggested to restart it ?
You should never have to restart bind periodically. Just set a limit on the
amount of memory used by the RR cache by using data-size in the options
section of named.conf. For example:
options {
// your normal options here
// limit memory usage to 64MB
data-size 64M;
};
More details at:
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/options.html
Andy
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