How small is your Bind9+Server?

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• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  December 2011

  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 Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  December 2011 edited December 2011

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

  Francisco
• Go59954 Member

  December 2011

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

  December 2011 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
• Damian Member

  December 2011

  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 Member

  December 2011

  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 Member

  December 2011

  Hi Guys,

  Thanks for the info, appreciated!
• Bitcable Member

  December 2011

  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 Member

  December 2011 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
• Joel Member

  January 2012

  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 Member

  January 2012 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