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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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Subject: Re: Good nameserver system?
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On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 02:14:24AM -0500, Al Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Fascinating.  Could you dump the cache and see how much stuff it has
in there?

Greg