To get things started

  > 
  >   > Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema at cwi.nl> writes:
  >   > Crucial point is swapping, which has to be avoided at
  >   > all cost. Which means 16M of memory just isn't enough,
  >   > especially when you take into consideration that things
  >   > like zone transfers by secondary servers off ns.EU.net
  >   > cause the named process to fork off *the complete core
  >   > image*. 
  >   
  > 
  > Ruediger has a patch for that.
created by Berthold Paffrath who also posted it to this list the evening
just before the Paris RIPE meeting.

Berthold called it a "dirty patch" - but it's in production use on the
DE-NIC name server for several months and did not create any problems so far,
but solved a severe memory problem.  That patch also has the advantage,
that only clean data coming straight from the zone file and keeping out
any nasty cache data.

  Ruediger


Ruediger Volk
Universitaet Dortmund, Informatik IRB				DE-NIC
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