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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:56:29 +1030

Re: uh oh! -- BIND's no good again - warning, warning

Glen!

> I have Mark Crispin, one of the ten BIND authors, looking
> over my shoulder as I write.

Well, I have God and the Devil looking over mine. And they're fighting
about whose fault the Bind 8 series source code is :-P

> This tends to give each page of memory an equal chance of being
> referenced, and therefore you need enough memory so that BIND
> won't page for adequate performance.

I presume you mean all of its databases, including your own zones and
the ones you've cached. So, a really busy name server could attempt to
hijack memory until it (theoretically) ran out or hit some limit.

> With enough memory BIND9 is slightly slower (about 13%) than
> BIND8.  They have plans to fix this.

That sounds rather amusing. What does it do without enough memory? And
what, in your opinion, is "enough" memory?

DL

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