why is memory growing

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Apr 3 21:48:55 UTC 2002


Look at your query logs. Perhaps some of your users have suddenly
"discovered" the Internet and are generating a much wider range of queries than
you're accustomed to.


- Kevin

Laura Cengia wrote:

> True, I have the recursion enabled. But I am interested in why and what
> could cause such a suddenly behaviour (TTL? Negative cacheing?).
>
> In any case what can I try to monitor in order to discover and
> understand something more.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura.
>
> bert hubert wrote:
> >
> > In article <a82aur$gcj at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Laura Cengia wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > On Solaris 2.6 BIND-8.2.5 is running without problems with 13000
> > > configured zones.
> > > I've no problem with the memory size on the system.
> > >
> > > Today the memory usage is growing up and up after two or three months
> > > that the named daemon was running at an almost "fixed" value.
> > >
> > > I would like to know by what event it could be caused.
> > >
> > > I'm monitoring the RQ, SAns and RR graphs and they are almost in their
> > > usual state of health.
> >
> > Do you have recursion turned on? That might be the cause of a growing cache.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > bert hubert
> >
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