Re: ot: djbdns/daemontools

[Camiel Dobbelaar <cd@sentia.nl>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, brian wrote:

> I've installed djbdns from the ports on my 2.8 box, and followed the
 
> like I'm told.  This results in four 'supervise' processes and what
> seems to me like way too much hard disk activity.  This seems wrong.
> Ideas?

This is correct. Four supervises: tinydns, tinydns-log, dnscache,
dnscache-log.

dnscache and tinydns are quite verbose in their actions, this is what
causes the harddisk activity. You can tune multilog in
/service/*/log/run to exclude certain lines.
(on busy dnscache machines the 10 * 100KB worth of logging is good for 1
minute of activity :)

Also, tinydns compiles every DNS reply into a hashed DB on disk. It reads
it for every request, but that should eventually get cached by the OS.


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Cam