[Pdns-users] PDNS Resolver memory leak?

[Brad Dameron]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 -0600, Darren Gamble wrote:
> Hi Brad,
> 
> > I am using this release: pdns-recursor-3.1.4-1.i386.rpm
> > 
> > The memory usage on the pdns_recursor daemon seems to keep growing
> > steadily. I currently have it set to cap at 1 million cache entries.
> My
> > graphs show me hitting upwards of 1.07 million entries. I am currently
> > at 287MB from the initial 226MB that it was steady at for the first 2
> > days.
> > 
> > Is there any known issues with this? I have plenty of RAM but would
> like
> > to up the cache limit to 4 million and am worried about it eventually
> > using up all the system memory. Any help appreciated.
> 
> We're running this version ourselves, and haven't had any memory leaks.
> Our recursors are capped at 4M entries.
> 
> The sample server I've checked has had the process running since March
> 9.  It's using 1162288B of memory, 1152824 of which is resident.  So, if
> there are any memory leaks, they're extremely tiny.  The server is
> reasonably busy and hits that memory size within a day of running.
> 
> It's normal for the memory size to increase as the server runs, as the
> recursor doesn't pre-allocate memory for all of the entries.
> 
> That was for a 32-bit x86 machine.  On a 64-bit machine, the memory
> usage is quite a bit higher (1.7GB on the machine I peeked at, process
> running since Feb 12).  I believe Bert indicated that this is due to
> larger pointer sizes.  Still, no leaks, though.
> 
> Even if you don't have that much memory, the recursor still runs well on
> less.  You'll just have to lower that cache size
> 
> From our experience, at least, I think you can put your mind at ease.
> :-)
> 

  I'll crank er up and see how it goes. I appreciate the response.

Thanks.

Brad Dameron
Senior Systems Engineer
Clearw're