[H-GEN] named on RedHat 7.x

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> On Thursday 08 August 2002 17:55, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Is that configurable somewhere?  I understand it is for Apache with the
> StartServers directive in httpd.conf.

Should be.  Look in init.d as I'm pretty sure that this doesn't happen in
named.conf.

> > it at 5 copies myself.  The performance overheads are negligable as any
> > un-needed apps will be swapped out eventually.
>
> I suppose I'm guilty of neglecting to mention the box he's running this on is
> a 486-100 with 48MB RAM.  Still negligable?

All modern versions of unix use "copy on write" pages so the overheads for
unused copies really will be negligable since they largely share the same
memory areas.  Otherwise copies taking up memory but that are not being
used will eventually get swapped.  I don't see this as a biggie.  He'll
actually give better performance to clients using his dns server as a
result of having copies pre-forked.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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