Memory Reduction

[Frank]

Am Die, 2002-08-20 um 18.49 schrieb Pete Ehlke:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:37:42PM +0000, Frank wrote:
> > 
> > please how can i reduce the Memory allocation of a Bind 9.21
> > caching-only Server reducing ?
> > 
> > 25459 named     15   0 37548  36M  1908 S     0,0 14,6   0:00 named
> > 25460 named     15   0 37548  36M  1908 S     0,0 14,6   0:51 named
> > 25461 named     15   0 37548  36M  1908 S     0,0 14,6   0:00 named
> > 25462 named     15   0 37548  36M  1908 S     0,0 14,6   0:00 named
> > 25457 named     16   0 37548  36M  1908 S     0,0 14,6   0:00 named
> > 
> > restarted, about 2 minutes. most it has much more memory in use.
> > 
> Looks like you're running linux. Remember that linux shows threads as
> processes, so if you're adding all those memory totals together, you're
> getting a figure that's five times as large as the real memory usage on
> this machine.
> 
> For a caching server in use in a corporate environment, that's not all
> that much memory usage. How much ram is in the machine?

256MB

it swaps to ~60MB, but if i /etc/init.d/named restart the Swap Usage is
only 5MB. I heard about djbdns, because for a cachning ONLY Server its
me to much wastefulness.

Now

25459 named     15   0 40040  39M  1956 S     0,0 15,5   0:00 named
25460 named     15   0 40040  39M  1956 S     0,0 15,5   0:55 named
25461 named     15   0 40040  39M  1956 S     0,0 15,5   0:00 named
25462 named     15   0 40040  39M  1956 S     0,0 15,5   0:00 named
25457 named     16   0 40040  39M  1956 S     0,0 15,5   0:00 named

> -Pete

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Frank