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\ vasilyev_igor (29 Jan 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (29 Jan 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Memory
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Mark Andrews
Date:	29 Jan 2007

> I have bind9-9.3.1 and FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
>
> Named.conf:
>
> options {
> directory "/opt/sys/namedb";
> allow-recursion {acl;};
> max-ncache-ttl 3600;
> max-cache-ttl 36000;
> recursive-clients 5000;
> dump-file "run/named_dump.db";
> max-cache-size 200M;
> transfers-in 20;
> transfers-out 30;
> };
>
>
> In top I saw:
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 66201 root 119 0 377M 328M RUN 175:07 0.00% 0.00% named
>
> Can anybody ask me, from where this 128M in memory?
> Cashe in config only 200M.

The amount of active memory in the cache is limited to 200M.
The rest is malloc overhead. Clients and other data structures
etc.

> --
> Yours sincerely,
> Vasilyev Igor mailto:vasilyev_igor
>
>
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