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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!sarah.netmedia.co.il!not-for-mail From: sbirn@bofh.org.il (Steve Birnbaum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: 21 Oct 1996 09:17:39 +0200 Organization: NetMedia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <54f82j$kbm@shimon.netmedia.net.il> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bofh.org.il In article <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. Still, while 8MB is just fine for a FreeBSD machine, I'd be very wary of putting up anything with less than 16MB and calling it production. With the price of RAM these days it's not like this is all that big of an investment anyway. As far as growing, with 12 computers playing around and queries coming into him from all over, I expect it will grow. Steve -- Steve Birnbaum - System Administrator, NetMedia. Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: sbirn@netmedia.net.il Phone: +972-2-795-860 PGP Key available upon request Standard disclaimer....