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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
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Subject: Re: 'periodic daily' memory usage
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Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > 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;
> };

That made no difference.  It looked like it might at first, but after
just a few minutes RSS was back to 24 MB.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no