Hi team,

We had recently upgraded our bind nameservers from 9.14.10 to 9.16.28. This led 
to the hosts gradually using up a lot of memory and eventually named was OOM 
killed as it consumed nearly 7GB out of total 8GB server memory. (This package 
was built from source for centos 7)

I’ve been looking into this and tested the performance of both 9.14 and 9.16 
under the traffic of 600 queries per sec for 12 hours, which is the average qps 
our servers get. It was found that while 9.14 had a surge of around 2GB, 9.16 
had a surge of 5.2GB during this time. I wanted to know whether this difference 
in memory consumption is expected while migrating from 9.14.10 to 9.16.28, or 
if this could be a memory leak that would keep building over time; it would 
really help if I can get some insights on what might be causing this, or if 
there’s any way to avoid this other ram bumping up the RAM.

Also I noticed some CVE related to this bind version recently, if anything to 
do with that ?


  1.  A memory leak was fixed that could be externally triggered in the DNSSEC 
verification code for the ECDSA algorithm. (CVE-2022-38177)
  2.  Memory leaks were fixed that could be externally triggered in the DNSSEC 
verification code for the EdDSA algorithm. (CVE-2022-38178)

I’d be glad to provide more info if needed. Would really appreciate your inputs 
and suggestions on this.
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Regards,
Prasanna.
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