On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I've never seen any disk usage for anything other than master zones on > the seven nameservers I run, if that's any help.
Yes. As soon as I posted this question I thought to take a peek at comp.protocols.dns.bind where my eyes almost immediately fell on a thread "Where's the cache?" Here's a snip: -snip- > Ok this might be a dumb question but my logs have a lot of messages like > "Cleaned cache of 49 RRsets", there's also the ncache_tt, which implies > stuff is being cached on my box, where is this cache? In named's memory. >I'm wondering what resources are being used and how running a caching Use "ps" to see the size of the named process to see how much VM it's using. -snip- There's nothing new under the sun. <g> > I'm in the process of building a CD-ROM boot disk that has a live Debian > filesystem on it and logging cranked down with logrotate aggressively > rotating off the logs ... that all runs from ramdisk as a test of how to > create cheap caching-only/forwarding nameservers. I'll put up a URL > here in -user once I have it working if anyone wants to play with it. Please do! -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA
