bind9 is taking little Breaks for Some Reason.

[Clenna Lumina]

Chris Thompson wrote:
> On Jun 27 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
>> I think I may have found something significant so I am
>> asking the list if this rings any bells?
>
> [... enormous journal files may be causing BIND performance problems
> ...]
>
>> I imagine the new server which is going to be about half
>> again as fast will keep up longer, but it looks like it is a
>> good idea to properly trim off the journals every 6 months to a year.
>
> I haven't observed the effects(s) you describe, but then I have never
> let my journal files grow to gigabytes ...
>
> You do realise you can keep the journal files trimmed by using
> max-journal-size (in options, or in each zone statement)? That's
> assuming you are at BIND 9.3 or later. There's very little point
> in keeping more than enough to provide IXFR to slaves (or whatever
> BIND itself needs for updates not committed to the zone file, but
> BIND doesn't let max-journal-size cause it to lose _them_).