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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!sverige.pengar.com!user From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:20:27 -0600 Organization: Pengar Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <chad-2110962020270001@sverige.pengar.com> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Dzn2rt.2y4@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> NNTP-Posting-Host: sverige.pengar.com In article <Dzn2rt.2y4@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, scott@wvs.com 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. > > 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 As the person who initially asked this... For the next few months the 8mb will have to do as all the $$ are upgrading/producing real production machines :-) and paying for the initial frame relay install costs. I agree that ram is cheap and will up it to 16mb in the nameserver "eventually", probably before or soon after going "live" (in a few months -- after Xmas). Thanks for all the feedback and help to all who responded. Best Chad