From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 22: 5:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F5A37B40B for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13758B5AD; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D0D6E2D.4071CCE@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:05:49 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Fox Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: controlling named's cache size References: <20020426104050.A320@mind.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Fox wrote: > > We've a nameserver with a fairly limited amount of RAM (64MB). Left > unattended, its cache grows to a fairly unwieldy size, drastically > slowing lookups and impacting upon customer services. I have been > charged with finding a remedy to this situation. The only reasonable solution to this problem is to put more ram in the machine. named is doing just what it's designed to do, and it's obvious that your current resolver doesn't meet the needs of your site. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message