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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: 22 Oct 1996 23:17:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54jkmf$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Dzn2rt.2y4@zorch.sf-bay.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) wrote: > > 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. Even then, it's certainly that you're referring to busy name servers, while i am writing about mostly idle servers (and the originator did clarify that it won't be a very busy one at all). Of course, if your nameserver gets 100 queries per second, things are totally different. If it's only one per second, you could even afford to pull every active page for it out of the swap. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)