hi all... this is probably a stupid question but.. can anybody explain why named is using so much ram? on a RH 8 box, BIND 9.2.1 there are multiple processes - 5 - and each one is taking up to 6% of the ram. all the zone files together are around 700k. the machine has 1gig of ram - 6% (x 5) is a lot... can somebody explain why? thanks..