How small is your Bind9+Server?

Joel

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

Francisco

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

Francisco

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

Francisco

Go59954

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

miTgiB

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

Damian

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

camarg

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

Joel

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the info, appreciated!

Bitcable

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.

netpioneer

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

Joel

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)

tommy

         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