hey geeks
in my new openvz vps i noted that bind9 is taking a lot of the RAM
process info:
ID Owner Size Command
17559 root 290396 kB /usr/sbin/named -c /etc/bind/named.conf
can anybody help?
hey geeks
in my new openvz vps i noted that bind9 is taking a lot of the RAM
process info:
ID Owner Size Command
17559 root 290396 kB /usr/sbin/named -c /etc/bind/named.conf
can anybody help?
Last edited by Smart_Viral; November 14th, 2010 at 12:25 AM.
284mb ... isn't that too much!???
That depends; how many zones are you serving DNS for?
One also wonders why your named service is running as root.
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@KB1JWQ: Excellent point. The default user it should run as is BIND.
For comparison purposes, I'm serving 34 zones and using about 65MB. This is on CentOS 5.5 using bind 9.3.6.
I'm serving 24 zones. Most of them are just empty zones, such as 168.192.in-addr.arpa., mainly because I found out in my security log that BIND was actually leaking queries, (see, "What does "RFC 1918 response from Internet for 0.0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" mean?" in the below link), and adding those empty zones fixed it. Because I found out about that, I actually recommend everyone enable the zones.rfc1918 file...
named.conf.local
http://www.bind9.net/BIND-FAQCode:// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your // organization //include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";
Last edited by James78; November 16th, 2010 at 01:30 AM.
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