You need to consider three components for memory: OS + other services; the zone files you load + cache you want.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kaya Saman <samank...@netscape.net> wrote: > Hi, > > currently I have 2 Solaris 9 boxes in my home based data center running as > primary and secondary dns servers; they are Sun Netra T105's with 440MHz > SPARC prcossors and 320MB of RAM. > > http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html > > Basically as I am going to be moving abroad since I have finished my > studies now and am about to get a job I will need to replace them in my new > residence and was just wondering if anyone had any idea of the hardware > specs I would need. > > As in should I be going for a single socket or dual socket server and how > much memory would I need.... also if I should virtualize the systems at all? > - Basically get one dual socket quad core system then run something like Sun > xVM or Citrix Xen on it and then have an instance of Primary and Secondary > or just use Solaris Zones as I will be whacking OpenSolaris most likely onto > them anyway.... > > I am quite confident that 1-2GB of memory should be sufficient to handle > the OS and multiple lookups as I'm planning on tying 3 sites together with > them plus using them as main servers for my domain also. > > I mean an idea of hardware was to get 1 or 2 Sun Fire X2250s solely for DNS > then run the Named service in a Small-Zone which I feel is equivalent to > running them chrooted on a linux system....?? Which I used to run bind on > Debian Etch chrooted before the Netra's came along and I started learning > Solaris! > > What can anyone recommend??? > > Many thanks for any responses :-) > > Kaya > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >
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