> On Jun 8, 2025, at 3:07 PM, Philip Prindeville via bind-users > <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > > > >> On May 21, 2025, at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott <bsc...@isc.org> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Philip Prindeville via bind-users" >>> To: "bind-users" >>> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2025 5:20:59 PM >>> Subject: Significant memory usage >> >>> What I’ve noticed is that at startup I’m using about 33K pages as the VSZ >>> (per >>> top on x86_64 hardware). >> >> VSZ (virtual size) just counts the number of virtual memory pages associated >> with the process in some way. That includes RAM, but also memory mapped >> files, devices, sparse pages that will never be backed by anything, etc. >> You need to look at RSS (resident size) to monitor actual RAM usage. >> >> The results of "rdnc stats" and/or the "statistics-channels" will provide >> BIND-specific statistics. The former can be run without preparation; the >> latter is a bit friendlier but needs a config change. >> >> https://kb.isc.org/docs/monitoring-recommendations-for-bind-9 >> >> https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00769 >> >> https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01123 >> >> —Ben > > > > Dumb question… how do you turn on statistics-channel when building bind? I’m > not seeing an option for it in ./configure
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