Named / cache

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:12:01PM -0600, Vu Pham took 19 lines to write:
> I have a cache-only dns server that has been running for a long time ( 450
> days and 19:57) . It uses named on Linux. And it works fine until recently I
> got some notice about slow access to the web sites when users first enter
> the sites.
> 
> Running "top" on that server shows named took 67% memory and the load
> average was 1.50. After stopping/starting named, everything works fine.
> 
> So, does named keeps the cache forever and never clear the old entries ? 

Presumably, it clears entries whose TTL has expired. The slowness and memory 
consumption might have been the result of memory leak.

Kurt
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