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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
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References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:45:29 GMT
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>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.
You definitely *do not* want to do that. named works very poorly if it starts
to swap, due to poor locality of reference in the cached data. Always ensure
you have enough RAM to run named completely in memory. At <$100 for 16MB,
anything else would be penny-wise and pound-foolish.
\scott