From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 12:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22035 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from loviatar.webcom.com (loviatar.webcom.com [209.1.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22024 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by loviatar.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA23538; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:07:29 -0700 Received: from [199.183.207.48] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 4021709; Fri Sep 25 12:06 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <360BE904.214E2821@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:03:32 -0400 From: Graeme Tait Reply-To: graeme@echidna.com Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS hardware needs under 2.2.7 References: <199809251600.JAA25652@implode.root.com> <360BDB15.9DDAAE38@echidna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Tait wrote: > > David Greenman wrote: > > BIND doesn't seem to consume a whole lot of CPU, but it does consume a lot > > of memory - typically 30-40MB on a busy server. That may be reason enough to > > have it on a seperate machine. We have both Apache and DNS on the same > > server at WC CDROM, but we have lots of memory in the machine (512MB) and > > the machine has CPU to burn (333MHz Pentium-II and only 1/2 million hits/day). > > Why is so much memory consumed (I'm assuming that the server is > authoritative for relatively few domains)? Hmmm ... reverse DNS for web logs ... is that the problem ??? (Regarding incoming DNS load, in addition to my previous comments, the web server should see half or less of DNS queries, assuming there is at least one other DNS server.) -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message