[Opendnssec-user] Memory usage

[Miek Gieben]

[ Quoting Matthijs Mekking at 11:12 on June  1 in "Re: [Opendnssec-user] Memory usage"... ]
> >>   500.000       118.4 Mb        456.9 Mb        1.9 Gb          1.6 Gb
> >> 1.000.000       237.6 Mb        915.2 Mb        3.5 Gb          3.2 Gb
> >> 5.000.000       1.2 Gb          4.6 Gb          16.2 Gb         14 Gb
> > 
> > Thanks for this nice list. In the last row I count that ods needs
> > 3.2K per NS (if I got the zeros right), that does seem a lot.
> 
> My apologies for the confusing terminology. #NS stands for the number of
> delegations. So it's not 3.2K per NS, but per delegation.
> 
> The zone is generated with ldns-gen-zone. So the delegation consists of
> 2 NS records and a NSEC3 record + corresponding RRSIG record. 50% of
> them have 1-4 DS records, plus corresponding RRSIG record. The
> NSEC3+RRSIG and DS+RRSIG storage already take up roughly 2.2K.

Thanks for the clarification.

One other question I have: when ods resigns a zone, do these memory
requirements stay the same? 

grtz,
    Miek