Hi, thanks for providing a reproducer. Just to give some rough numbers for the various branches we have (9.18, 9.20 and development):
BIND 9.18 (bind-9.18 branch HEAD) $ smem -P name[d] PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 450020 ondrej named 0 3233560 3234515 3243644 BIND 9.20 (bind-9.20 branch HEAD) $ smem -P name[d] PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 423614 ondrej named 0 7624888 7625856 7635076 BIND 9.21 (main branch HEAD) $ smem -P name[d] PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 453348 ondrej named 0 3772128 3773103 3782376 As you can see, the 9.20 does consume about 7.5 GB of memory, which might be little on a higher side, but you are loading 300k zones into the memory and there is no sharing between the content of the zones. 8 GB of memory for loading 300k zones doesn't seem wrong to me, but as you can see, this again got better in the development version and the development is not done yet. Also as Carlos said, this is exactly why RPZ came into existence and this particular setup is just wrong, and RPZ should be used instead. The main problem here is though that you think that we should prioritize **your** setup over all the others and using very aggressive language to get your way. We are not going to do that. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) ond...@isc.org My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. > On 1. 7. 2025, at 19:27, OwN-3m-All <own3m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Apologies if I misunderstood your setup. I’ve also encountered memory > >> issues in recent BIND versions — BIND 9.18.33 on Debian 12 is a tremendous > >> beast, capable of handling millions of QPS — but after reducing logging > >> (including DNSTAP) and disabling serve-stale, I saw a significant > >> improvement in both performance and memory usage. > > Sorry, there's 295,108 hosts I'm serving up as 127.0.0.1 (for ad blocking). > > I zipped my entire /etc/bind directory (which includes all configs). It's > available to download here: > > https://dinofly.com/files/linux/bind/bind_config_9.20_out_of_memory_bind_9.18_fine.zip > > -- > Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from > this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
