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Subject: Re: 'periodic daily' memory usage
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> An entirely different issue is why named uses so much memory...  does
> anybody know of a way to specify how much memory named may use for its
> cache?
>   

Something like :

options {
        directory       "/etc/namedb";
        pid-file        "/var/run/named/pid";
        *max-cache-size 10485760;
};


According to http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm94/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#options

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