On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 02:15:34PM -0400, Thomas Schulz wrote: > In investigating an out of memory error on a Solaris 8 Sparc > machine (compiled as a 32 bit executable), I find that the process > size increase due to the cache does not make sense. > > Over about a week the process size had grown to 257 MB, up from an > initial size of 36 MB. But when I dumped the cache with rndc dumpdb > -cache, the resulting named_dump.db file was only 6 MB in size. > Given the way the file is formatted, I would expect that the in > memory version would be smaller than that. > > But when I did a 'rndc flush', the process stopped growing for about > the same number of days that it took to reach 257 MB. That indicates > that the increase in process size really is due to the cache. The > increase in process size from 36 MB to 257 MB does not make sense > given that the cache dump is only 6 MB.
What version of BIND is this? And do you use statistics-channel? I'd be interested to see what the memory stats look like on a running server. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users