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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:20:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sbirn@bofh.org.il (Steve Birnbaum) wrote: > Especially if you are going to have this servicing client lookups... > ie are people going to point their PC's resolvers at this machine? > named itself can grow in memory to 10MB or more. For a big ISP, certainly. For an environment similar to Chad's, i have yet to see named growing to much more than ~ 1 MB. Even then, it's virtual memory, so you might compensate missing RAM by swap space. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)