RE: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Bulk
30, 2011 4:51 AM To: Phil Mayers Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Choosing max-journal-size On 30/11/2011 10:32, Phil Mayers wrote: We sort of did this accidentally. max-journal-size wasn't being set on our servers - the .jnl file for imperial.ac.uk was nearly 2Gb... oops. The value I

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Phil Mayers
On 11/29/2011 11:53 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 11/29/2011 15:33, Chris Thompson wrote: With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say disc space is cheap, make them

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Phil Mayers
On 11/29/2011 11:33 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say disc space is cheap, make them all BIGNUM). We sort of did this accidentally.

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/30/2011 01:23, Phil Mayers wrote: On 11/29/2011 11:53 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 11/29/2011 15:33, Chris Thompson wrote: With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 11/29/2011 11:33 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say disc space is cheap, make them all BIGNUM). On 30.11.11 09:32, Phil Mayers

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 30/11/2011 10:32, Phil Mayers wrote: We sort of did this accidentally. max-journal-size wasn't being set on our servers - the .jnl file for imperial.ac.uk was nearly 2Gb... oops. The value I set it to eventually was pretty big - 128M globally - which on our biggest zones seems to give ~2

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Phil Mayers
On 30/11/11 10:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Well, that's way too much. The main point of journal is imho to provide I think this is a decision for each operator to make themselves. ___ Please visit

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30/11/11 10:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Well, that's way too much. The main point of journal is imho to provide On 30.11.11 11:51, Phil Mayers wrote: I think this is a decision for each operator to make themselves. I was trying to explain that there are reasonable limits over which

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.403.1322655086.68562.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On 30/11/11 10:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Well, that's way too much. The main point of journal is imho to provide On 30.11.11 11:51, Phil Mayers wrote: I think this is a

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Shumon Huque
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Well, that's way too much. The main point of journal is imho to provide IXFR, and IXFR is only worth using when its size is smaller than AXFRs. That means jnl should not get (much) bigger than zone file itself. (unless,

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Phil Mayers
On 30/11/11 12:10, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 30/11/11 10:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Well, that's way too much. The main point of journal is imho to provide On 30.11.11 11:51, Phil Mayers wrote: I think this is a decision for each operator to make themselves. I was trying to

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Graff
On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 11/29/2011 11:33 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: I wonder if an external tool to trim the journal would be an option? You'd need a timestamp on records (relying on the RRSIGs mean it only works for signed). Not sure about the locking

Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Thompson
With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say disc space is cheap, make them all BIGNUM). What I would really like is an option that discards increments applied sufficiently

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/29/2011 15:33, Chris Thompson wrote: With a mixture of small and large zones, signed and unsigned, choosing sensible values for max-journal-size can become rather tedious (unless one is prepared to to say disc space is cheap, make them all BIGNUM). I'm quite prepared to say that,