Bind9(9.3.2p1) "out of memory"

Adam Young adamy at mountaincable.on.ca
Thu Sep 28 08:39:28 UTC 2006


Hi Stefan,

> No idea what BIND does there but i remember there is (was?) a hard limit
> of 3GB RAM
> per user process [1|2] in default x86-32 kernels.
> But as you mentioned you limited max-cache-size to 3GB the question that
> springs to my mind is: Do you really need such a huge working set for
> your cache? (Assuming its a caching-only server.)
> I have been quite lucky with just 380MB on several machines after i used
> two split processes per machine and disabled threading with bind9.
> Do you already monitor your servers query-load [3]?
> I'd say try limiting the max-cache-size to 2 or even 1GB and then look
> at your graphs and see if it has any bad impact on your users.

I think I may have found a reason why there are so many queries and why the
cache is growing so large.

It looks like it is trying to tag on the domains I've listed in
/etc/resolv.conf with "search" to either all of the queries, or ones that
are failing.

Do you know how to stop this? I tried removing them and restarting bind, but
it still shows the following being queried (ie.):

Isc.org
Isc.org.localnet.
Isc.org.mountaincable.net.

Thanks in advance,

-
Adam Young
Systems Support Technologist
Mountain Cablevision Ltd.
(905)667-7436




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