Re: Supporting large caches ( 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread sthaug
Have you *measured* the hit rate of your current BIND resolvers with different cache sizes? How many queries per second are you trying to support? We do about 3,000 queries/second typically. I haven't measured query -rates vs cache sizes. We've had max-cache-size set to 3GB for a long

Re: Supporting large caches ( 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Shumon Huque
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:47:45PM +0100, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: Have you *measured* the hit rate of your current BIND resolvers with different cache sizes? How many queries per second are you trying to support? We do about 3,000 queries/second typically. I haven't measured query

Re: Supporting large caches ( 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 15 2010, Shumon Huque wrote: [...] But there is a hardcoded limit of 4GB (ISC_UINT32_MAX) for the max-cache-size parameter: bin/named/server.c: if (value ISC_UINT32_MAX) { cfg_obj_log(obj, ns_g_lctx, ISC_LOG_ERROR,