memory leak or other problem

[Adam Tkac]

Andrew Armstrong napsal(a):
> I have a strange problem with my bind servers where the process runs 
> great until the memory usage gets very high. I am running CentOS 4.5 and 
> the latest version of Bind for that distribution bind-9.2.4-24. On one 
> of my servers there is not enough RAM in the system and about every 24 
> hours I have to restart the bind server. After I restart everything runs 
> great until I get to about 80% memory usage.
>
> The same problem happens on my other 2 servers but they have 2 and 4 GB 
> of memory so this takes much longer. When the memory usage gets to 
> around 80% or more the dns server stops responding and I get a 
> notification from my nagios monitoring system.
>
> Has anybody experienced this and if so what have you done to fix it? I 
> would like to just let these servers run and not have to worry about 
> them. I do realize I could just restart them every day but this is only 
> gonna work as long as they don't have to be restarted more then once a 
> day which for now is ok. I would like to find a more permanent solution 
> and more insight into what is causing this.
>
> Thanks for any help. I searched google long and hard and have not found 
> anything that really helped.
>
>   
Best should be fill bug report to your OS vendor. He will investigate if 
this is known issue and tell you what will be done to fix it.

Adam