30 Sep
2012
30 Sep
'12
5:50 p.m.
That matches up with my real world experiences. I was
explicit about the
swap requirement with smaller amounts of memory for a reason.
Running BIND9 strictly as a _caching_ nameserver (the most common
application) under Debian Linux with 128MB of ram and no swap will no
longer work. The amount of memory required by BIND9 plus the basic OS (no
X, GUI, or other such fluff) will exceed 128MB of memory use and BIND will
core dump. With more memory -or- swap available, this does not happen.
I run BIND8 on a Macintosh IIci with NetBSD and 128MB of RAM as an internal
nameserver (also to service very old DNS clients on my Solbourne and some
other difficult-to-upgrade systems). It works well for this purpose, and
does old-school AppleTalk as well.
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