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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 02:14:24 -0500
From: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:36:22PM -0400, Kris Kirby wrote:
> > > What would be a good system for making a nameserver? I'm guessing P-200 or
> > > better and PPro-200. This would be a FreeBSD system, running named or a
> > > faster nameserver. And a 500M-2GB disk cache.
> >
> > Are you planning to run a name server for a large network provider,
> > including a large number of secondary servers?  Then you might be on
> > the right lines.  I've always found that an old 386 with 8 MB of
> > memory does a pretty good job.  My name server, the primary for my
> > domain, uses about 1 MB of data.  In the last two days, it has used 22
> > seconds of CPU time on a P5/133.

Depending on many things Named can grow to be a real best.  I work
on a DEC Alpha running the packaged Named (ya I know change to the
latest release of BIND) and last night when I checked on it, it was
consuming over 24MB of memory, virtually no disk space but way too 
much memory.

 -- Al