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How small is your Bind9+Server?

JoelJoel Member
edited December 2011 in Help

Looking to find out how small you have managed to get your server (Debian or Ubuntu) and Bind9 down to?
If you could share your ram usage and how many records you have on there would be great.

Regards,

Joel

Comments

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    RAM usage:

    root@ns1 [/]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           512        255        256          0          0         30
    -/+ buffers/cache:        225        286
    Swap:            0          0          0
    

    And record count:

    root@ns1 [/]# ls -alh /var/named/*.db | wc -l
    928
    
  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran
    edited December 2011

    I should add, these are running cpanel DNSONLY, so the RAM usage will be lower by at least 100MB.

    Francisco

  • I believe you get the lowest overall RAM usage while using BIND with Debian5 then probably Centos5.

  • miTgiBmiTgiB Member
    edited December 2011


    root@ns101 [~]# free -m
    total used free shared buffers cached
    Mem: 512 214 297 0 0 0
    -/+ buffers/cache: 214 297
    Swap: 0 0 0
    root@ns101 [~]# ls -alh /var/named/*.db | wc -l
    1696
    root@ns101 [~]#

    Also cPanel DNSONLY with named running about a week

    named    29964  1.4 20.4 143436 107248 ?       Ssl  Dec10 155:41 /usr/sbin/named -u named
  • Also cPanel DNSONLY for us:

    total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 512 112 399 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 112 399 Swap: 0 0 0

    root@remotedns [~]# ls -alh /var/named/*.db | wc -l 733

  • another cpanel dnsonly

    
    root@dns1 [~]# free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           498        441         56          0         74        169
    -/+ buffers/cache:        197        301
    Swap:         1023          0       1023
    root@dns1 [~]#
    root@dns1 [~]# ls -alh /var/named/*.db | wc -l
    939
    
  • Hi Guys,

    Thanks for the info, appreciated!

  • root@flurry:~# free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           238        104        134          0         15         60
    -/+ buffers/cache:         28        210
    Swap:          125         12        112
    

    Not using cPanel -- just BIND9 on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.

  • netpioneernetpioneer Member
    edited December 2011

    Debian 6 / VMware 128MB

    Bind 9.8 starts using ~70MB but after a while 200MB and counting ...

    root@pa2:~# free
                total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:       122028     119528       2500          0       5028      21840
    -/+ buffers/cache:     92660      29368
    Swap:     1048568     123800     924768
    
    root@pa2:~# rndc stop
    root@pa2:~# named
    root@pa2:~# free
                total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:       122028      81772      40256          0       2724      18056
    -/+ buffers/cache:     60992      61036
    Swap:     1048568       4172    1044396
  • Well some interesting info so far...

    Ram Usage on Bind9 DNS (No Panel)
    DNS        2 Records        36 Records
    dns.au    43mb               49mb                OpenVZ
    dns.eu    33mb               40mb                VServer
    dns.uk    24mb               26mb                XenPV
    dns.us    20mb               22mb                OpenVZ       (Master)
    
  • tommytommy Member
    edited January 2012
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    

    Mem: 220 122 97 0 0 0
    -/+ buffers/cache: 122 97
    Swap: 0 0 0

    root@ns2 [~]# ls -alh /var/named/*.db | wc -l

    59

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