Re: Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: named claims memory on the fly. On Solaris, I have bind 8 seen claiming about 800MB RAM for its caching database, being the resolver for the machine that creates from http-logs colorful pictures and other fancy things... Waaauw, that sounds rather d

Re: Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-04 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: > > > > named claims memory on the fly. > > On Solaris, I have bind 8 seen claiming about 800MB RAM for its caching > > database, being the resolver for the machine that creates from http-logs > > colorful pictures and other fancy things... > > Waaauw, that sounds ra

Re: Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: No change at all in memory usage. If named keeps its cache in memory, why do I not see any changes of available swap space when starting named? Or does named claim memory on the fly, as it is caching? If so, how can I find out what is the maximum it

Re: Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-04 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: > No change at all in memory usage. If named keeps its cache in memory, > why do I not see any changes of available swap space when starting named? > > Or does named claim memory on the fly, as it is caching? > If so, how can I find out what is the maximum it can cla

Re: Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, This is on FreeBSD 4-Stable. I have set up a caching name server. About its cached data base, I found out: 1) data base is kept in memory 2) the maximum memory is adjustable in named.conf, for example: datasize 20M; But without specifying the datasize, how much memory is

Memory used by caching name server?

2004-06-03 Thread Rob
Hi, This is on FreeBSD 4-Stable. I have set up a caching name server. About its cached data base, I found out: 1) data base is kept in memory 2) the maximum memory is adjustable in named.conf, for example: datasize 20M; But without specifying the datasize, how much memory is used by def