Memory issue?

[M.Ashcraft at epixtech.com]

I'm not ruling out syntax errors but that %mem column typically refers to 
virtual memory (RAM + SWAP).  Check the size column -- next one to the 
right for how much memory named is using.  If named is using swap space 
you could have problems.  Use vmstat to check actual memory usage and 
paging stats on your system.

Mike

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Mike Ashcraft, Sr. Network Engineer
epixtech, Inc.
M.Ashcraft at epixtech.com





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Hello there, anyone know why named would spit out syntax errors that don't
exist?  i.e. 'Syntax error near "m"'.  I know that there really isn't a
syntax error there because I ran nslint and all it gave me was warnings
about invalid PTR records (which makes sense since 80% of our domains 
point
to hosts outside our network).

I also should point out that ndc won't do anything.  When I try to use it 
to
start named I always get "named has not started yet(?)".  When I tell it 
to
"ndc restart" it always tells me "named is not running" and starts another
instance of named.

My server is hosting over 400,000 domains, but only has 64 megs of RAM.
When we purchased it, it was host to only about 100,000 domains.  Even 
with
400,000, named still only uses about 50% of the RAM (according to ps aux
anyway).

Could these mysterious syntax errors be due to a lack of memory?

Thanks,

"Nobody ever says 'I want to be a computer geek when I grow up'...

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