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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:47:32 GMT
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>> Always ensure you have enough RAM to run named completely in memory.
>For the next few months the 8mb will have to do as all the $$ are
>upgrading/producing real production machines :-)
Then I advise whomping the hell out of named every time it gets fat. When I
wound up with a RAM-starved primary, I had to kill it every 12 hours to keep
the in-core cache from getting too big. Monitor it closely and kill it before
it starts to page.
\scott