On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 -0600, Darren Gamble wrote: > Hi Brad, > > > I am using this release: pdns-recursor-3.1.4-1.i386.rpm > > > > The memory usage on the pdns_recursor daemon seems to keep growing > > steadily. I currently have it set to cap at 1 million cache entries. > My > > graphs show me hitting upwards of 1.07 million entries. I am currently > > at 287MB from the initial 226MB that it was steady at for the first 2 > > days. > > > > Is there any known issues with this? I have plenty of RAM but would > like > > to up the cache limit to 4 million and am worried about it eventually > > using up all the system memory. Any help appreciated. > > We're running this version ourselves, and haven't had any memory leaks. > Our recursors are capped at 4M entries. > > The sample server I've checked has had the process running since March > 9. It's using 1162288B of memory, 1152824 of which is resident. So, if > there are any memory leaks, they're extremely tiny. The server is > reasonably busy and hits that memory size within a day of running. > > It's normal for the memory size to increase as the server runs, as the > recursor doesn't pre-allocate memory for all of the entries. > > That was for a 32-bit x86 machine. On a 64-bit machine, the memory > usage is quite a bit higher (1.7GB on the machine I peeked at, process > running since Feb 12). I believe Bert indicated that this is due to > larger pointer sizes. Still, no leaks, though. > > Even if you don't have that much memory, the recursor still runs well on > less. You'll just have to lower that cache size > > From our experience, at least, I think you can put your mind at ease. > :-) >
I'll crank er up and see how it goes. I appreciate the response. Thanks. Brad Dameron Senior Systems Engineer Clearw're _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
