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From: taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: named running out of memory and aborting?
Date: 13 Nov 1995 22:53:00 -0500
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In article <487p7f$7ia@ionews.io.org>, Brian Tao <taob@ionews.io.org> wrote:
>
>The named process itself occupies about 11
>megabytes after running for a few days.

    I'm starting up named after doing an "unlimit" in the shell.  The
default memory usage limit is 16 megabytes, which I figured would be
enough (since I never see named go above about a dozen megs).  I'm
running it now with a 64-meg limit to see if it solves the problem.
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"