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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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> > > 10 Days ago I installed DNS and DHCPd servers from RedHat and noticed that 
> > > "top" shows the amount of consumed memory is slowly and constantly 
> > > growing. Machine became unstable and a few users complained that their 
> > > files disappeared. ( we have good backup ). I re-booted 4 days ago and now 
> > > it looks it is doing it again. Could this be BIND?
> > 
> > Wildly improbable. Slow shifts in memory usage occur naturally so don't be 
> > totally mislead by it. Named for example will grow and shrink over time 
> > according to what it has cached and what people asked for.
> 
> But it took half of my swap (4GB) as well. A bit too much 
> for a little bind. How to explain this?
> 

Bind can be greedy on memory usage. Upgrade to 9.2.0, and set 
max-cache-size to limit it :-)

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

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