Regarding Parallel Support

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Tue Aug 12 18:30:14 UTC 2008


At Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:51:06 +0400,

> OK... This is well known bug.
> 
> === named.conf ===
> [...]
> options {
> 	max-cache-size 500M;
> 	};
> 
> [...]
> ==================
> named with threads (8 threads, 1 thread per CPU)
> Memory Usege grows very quickly. Top memory usage - system limit (2Gb), 
> and then die (20-30 minutes under heavy load). After 500Mb-600Mb (limit) 
> named became slow answer to queries, eat cpu time.
> 
> named without threads
> Memory Usege grows not so quickly. Top memory usage - system limit 
> (2Gb), and then die (60-240 minutes under heavy load). After 500Mb-600Mb 
> (limit) named became slow answer to queries, eat cpu time.

Which version of BIND are you using?  This seems to be something
heavily improved in BIND 9.5.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.


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