Search Again: Re: Falling Memory From: andrew Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 Time: 1:09:35 pm so what's the guideline for setting memory? I can allocate 100-meg or more if necessary, but are there any stability issues in doing so? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Global Homes Webmaster" <webmaster@globalhomes.com> To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Falling Memory > Andrew, > > I think what you're seeing is QDNS filling up its cache with answers that it's > received from other name servers. By restarting it, you're forcing it to dump > all of that cached info, which means that it has to send out new queries if it > subsequently needs any the info that had been cached. The effect is that QDNS > will be somewhat less efficient until it builds its cache back up. So, you > should allocate enough memory to QDNS for a reasonable cache (what that is > depends on what kind of use your name server gets), then leave it alone and > don't restart it unless absolutely necessary. > > On 07/12/00 at 15:19, andrew wrote: > > > Hi All: Over time, QDNSPro 2.2.1's free memory drops from whatever I've > > allocated to it down to about 1 meg in it's status window. > > > > Selecting "restart" from the file menu frees up the memory again. > > > > It's the sole application running on a WGS 7250, with about 128-meg RAM > > installed. > > > > I started it at 4-meg, then bumped it up to 8, and now to 16, and within a > > day or two, the free memory always falls to about 1 meg. > > > > Is this a problem and should I periodically "restart" QDNS? or can I leave > > it alone? or should I continue to "up" the memory? > > > > TIA, Andrew Kagan > > > > > > Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: Falling Memory by andrew on Jul 12, 2000 at 12:16:21 pm Re: Falling Memory by Global Homes Webmaster on Jul 12, 2000 at 12:39:51 pm Re: Falling Memory by andrew on Jul 12, 2000 at 1:09:35 pm Re: Falling Memory by Global Homes Webmaster on Jul 12, 2000 at 1:49:24 pm Re: Falling Memory by Men & Mice Support on Jul 12, 2000 at 6:36:32 pm Re: Falling Memory by andrew on Jul 12, 2000 at 7:18:09 pm Re: Falling Memory by Men & Mice Support on Jul 12, 2000 at 7:45:24 pm Re: Falling Memory by andrew on Jul 12, 2000 at 8:19:27 pm Re: Falling Memory by Men & Mice Support on Jul 12, 2000 at 8:57:51 pm