still have named memory leak

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 18:07:29 UTC 2014


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mukund Sivaraman <muks at isc.org> wrote:

> Hi Len
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:52:23AM -0600, lconrad at go2france.com wrote:
> > binary upgraded Freebsd 10 to Freebsd 10.1
> >
> > named  9.10.1, compiled from source
> >
> > at named start, 305 MB memory
> >
> > after several hours of running named is approaching 800 MB. I'm sure
> after a
> > couple of days, as before, it will head towards 2000 MB
> >
> > suggestions?
> >
> > this is a recursive only NS, about 20M q/day restricted by ACL to
> > "ournetworks"
>
> This tells us that the named process size grows large, but more
> information is needed to discover why. Can you send us the following?
>
> 1. Your named configuration.
>
> 2. Regular dumps over time of the statistics that are available via
> HTTP, as the named process grows. See the "statistics-channels"
> documentation in the manual. You can use curl or wget to dump them to a
> file.
>

The standard tool for this on FreeBSD is fetch(1). E.g. fetch -o FILE "URL"
In a script I usually also use '-q' to eliminate noise, but YMMV.

I suspect most systems have wget and/or curl installed, but fetch is always
present on FreeBSD.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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