[Maybe Spam] Re: very high i/o usage

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Jul 23 14:50:28 UTC 2004


>>>>> "Nir" == Nir Cohen <NirC at BEZEQINT.CO.IL> writes:

    Nir> The swap usage is all the time growing now its 528776k used
    Nir> but its all the time growing.

Right. It looks like you have a memory leak. Your name server
probably shouldn't be using that much VM. It's likely to be guzzling
CPU cycles maintaining the cache. Check your OS documentation for
patches to its memory allocation library: malloc() and friends. That's
probably where the memory leak is. If the leak was in BIND, it would
be showing up on other platforms too.

Your Linux release seems rather old, so you might be as well to start
by upgrading that.


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