Significant memory usage

[Philip Prindeville]

I read:

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.9/reference.html#namedconf-statement-max-cache-size

and it doesn’t explain the notation for <sizeval>.




> On Jun 8, 2025, at 10:39 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:
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> What If you actually read the manual that I sent you - syntax of sizeval is explained there.
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>> On 9. 6. 2025, at 6:34, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe GB is the only unit it groks.
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>> Jun  8 22:31:52 OpenWrt named[19145]: /etc/bind/named.conf:42: expected integer and optional unit or percent near ‘1536MB’
>> 
>> Nope:
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>> Jun  8 22:32:48 OpenWrt named[19609]: /etc/bind/named.conf:43: expected integer and optional unit or percent near ‘2GB'
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>>> On Jun 8, 2025, at 10:29 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:
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>>> It does have the effect.
>>> 
>>> Also there’s BIND 9 ARM at https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.9/
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>>>>> On 9. 6. 2025, at 6:20, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> but doesn’t explain the syntax of “sizeval”.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried “1638M” but that doesn’t seem to have an effect.
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