Memory not increasing

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Francisco Jorge <franjorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,

> I am running bind 9.2.1 since five days and I have seen that the
> memory of the process has been gradually increasing until 1052M. Now
> it has stalled there and it is no longer growing. But I see that the
> process is still asking for domains that it has not stored in its
> cache. Why then is the size not growing? BIND is running under solaris
> 8, and it seems like the data size is not limited.

> Thanks,
> Fran

> 101 processes: 93 sleeping, 6 zombie, 2 on cpu
> CPU states: 40.7% idle, 52.3% user,  6.9% kernel,  0.1% iowait,  0.0%
> swap
> Memory: 2048M real, 665M free, 1097M swap in use, 2545M swap free

>    PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
>  24797 root       9   0    0 1052M 1051M cpu/1  161.5H 57.76% named


> nsamrro1 $ ulimit -a
> time(seconds)        unlimited
> file(blocks)         unlimited
> data(kbytes)         unlimited
> stack(kbytes)        8192
> coredump(blocks)     unlimited
> nofiles(descriptors) 256
> vmemory(kbytes)      unlimited

Your nameserver probably reached a balanced state where space=20
freed by timed-out RR is used for new RR.

This usually occurs after a week ( which happens to match your observatio=
ns)


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