dnscache memory usage

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 19:41:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:37:28PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:38PM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>>Since its startup a few weeks back, dnscache has blossomed to a chubby
>>95MB memory image -- the single biggest process running on the machine.
>>An eye will need to be kept on it, in case it keeps growing.
>
>
>AFAIK, it is keeping its memory usage there.  sourceware has 768MB of
>memory, so it's not a big deal.  I'd imagine that Ian configured
>dnscache to use that much memory for cacheing name/IP pairs.

Yep.  I've been watching it.  It hasn't been moving much.  It is using
a lot of CPU time but I guess that's to be expected.

cgf



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