From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 10:40:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.mind.net (morpheus.mind.net [206.101.72.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6CF37B41A for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:40:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jfox@localhost) by morpheus.mind.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3QHeol00364 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:40:50 -0700 From: John Fox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: controlling named's cache size Message-ID: <20020426104050.A320@mind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Mailer-Monkey: GonGon Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We've a nameserver with a fairly limited amount of RAM (64MB). Left unattended, its cache grows to a fairly unwieldy size, drastically slowing lookups and impacting upon customer services. I have been charged with finding a remedy to this situation. I immediately siezed upon the 'datasize' option, but was told that this does not relate to cache-management per se, and then when the datasize limit is hit, the effect will be that named can't get any more memory, thus not being able to perform further lookups -- which would again bring us to a situation in which customer services are (greatly) delayed. Not good! None of the other options I found in the named.conf manpage seem like they'll do the trick. So I'm kind of dead in the water right now. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, John -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Fox | System Administrator | Internet Ventures Oregon | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The people and friends that we have lost, the dreams that have faded... | | never forget them." -- Yuna, Final Fantasy X | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message