named dies when out of memory?

Adam Porter NOporterSPAM at lucent.com
Wed Jul 28 15:08:40 UTC 1999


On 28 Jul 1999 02:25:13 -0700, Jim Reid <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote:
>
>    Adam> BIND 8.2.1 on an SGI IRIX 6.2.  named dies when it runs out
>    Adam> of memory!  We tried setting a memory limit, but it seems to
>    Adam> then die when it reaches that limit.
>
>    Adam> Is this supposed to happen? 
>
>Yes. There's not much else that can be done if the OS can't won't let
>name server get more VM.
>
>    Adam> Is there anything we can do?
>
>Try letting the name server have more VM resources. Check out your
>shell's limit command and consult the OS documentation about process
>size limits. If that's not possible, you could try to make the name
>server less memory-hungry. For example, you could disable
>host-statistics if these were enabled. You could reduce the number of
>zones in its named.conf. If the server is thumped by lots of
>resolvers, consider adding more caching name servers and splitting the
>traffic from the resolvers between them. That should stop your name
>server's cache from getting so big.

Isn't there some way to dump older (least recently used) cached
data to make room for new stuff?  Or any other option than just
dying?  named on our heavily-used DNS proxy machine is just
using all available VM before dying, which only takes 2-5 days.

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							     -- Adam
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