Significant memory usage

[Philip Prindeville]

I take it back, it does at the beginning of the manual.

It would be helpful if all references to <sizeval> had links back to the explanation.

Odd that when you specify a percentage the effective amount is logged by named, but when you specify an absolute amount it’s not.




> On Jun 8, 2025, at 10:46 PM, Philip Prindeville via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> Maybe GB is the only unit it groks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jun  8 22:31:52 OpenWrt named[19145]: /etc/bind/named.conf:42: expected integer and optional unit or percent near ‘1536MB’
>>> 
>>> Nope:
>>> 
>>> Jun  8 22:32:48 OpenWrt named[19609]: /etc/bind/named.conf:43: expected integer and optional unit or percent near ‘2GB'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 8, 2025, at 10:29 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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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