Re: difference in dnscache installs

richard lucassen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Organization XAQ Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:24:20 +1030
Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:

> > The main question remains why these two instances of dnscache show
> > this phenomenon while others on much smaller DSL lines do not.
> 
> Didn't you say these two caches were busy?  There's a fixed upper
> limit on the number of outstanding queries (200?), and dnscache drops
> the oldest query if that limit is reached.

This sounds very logical. But OTOH DJB would have build this in as a
variable, wouldn't he? I remember him telling that Bind was barfing at
high loads (or was it qmail)

To give you an impression: writing 1MB of non-filtered logs through
multilog takes less than a second.

But where can I find this upper limit?

R.

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