How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <4.2.0.58.20000209145832.03d291e0 at pop3.mailbox.co.uk>,
Andy Spiers  <andy at centralnic.com> wrote:
>
>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:

What do you think happens when it reaches that limit?  I'll tell you: named
crashes and you have to restart it.

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