Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-22 Thread Eric.BERTHIAUME.external
Thanks all for your replies. Lots of interesting information! I’ll keep a eye out for those jnl files. Thanks again! E. Berthiaume ** Ce courrier électronique, y compris les pièces jointes, est à l'attention exclusive des destinataire

RE: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Stuart Browne
users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users- > boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Tony Finch > Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2015 6:34 AM > To: Bob Harold > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files > > Yes, an IXFR is a series of deletes a

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Tony Finch
Yes, an IXFR is a series of deletes and adds, which both quote whole records. If you re-sign a zone the IXFR can be nearly twice what an AXFR would be! But in fact the factor of two in my patch comes from the journal compaction logic, which halves the size of the journal. So my patch allows the

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Bob Harold
I like that solution. I assume that "twice the zone file size" is because half of the entries are deletes? Do deletes get sent in IXFR? Or is it that typically half of the journal entries are SOA records? I just took a peek at my journal files and I see one that is 100 times the zone file size.

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Tony Finch
I got annoyed by having to manually tune max-journal-size so I had a hack at the problem: https://git.csx.cam.ac.uk/x/ucs/ipreg/bind9.git/commitdiff/c8f083b797f9810f Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ Viking: Southeast, veering south or southwest later, 4 or 5, increasing 6 at times.

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Howard, Christopher
Oh, well that's good to know. :) -Christopher On 1/21/15, 12:18 PM, "Chris Thompson" wrote: >On Jan 21 2015, Howard, Christopher wrote: > >>The journal files get flushed to the zone file periodically, but old >>transactions don't get removed so the journal file will continue to grow >>forever

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jan 21 2015, Howard, Christopher wrote: The journal files get flushed to the zone file periodically, but old transactions don't get removed so the journal file will continue to grow forever. If you're like me and on virtual machines with limited hard disk capacity, you can limit the journal

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Howard, Christopher
The journal files get flushed to the zone file periodically, but old transactions don't get removed so the journal file will continue to grow forever. If you're like me and on virtual machines with limited hard disk capacity, you can limit the journal file size with the max-journal-size configurat

Re: Automatic flushing of the jnl files

2015-01-21 Thread Phil Mayers
On 21/01/15 15:46, eric.berthiaume.exter...@banque-france.fr wrote: So it it does seem to be rolling the changes but jnl files still persist. It’s not terribly bothering but I would like to know if this is the normal behavior. It's normal. The .jnl files contain the data required to perform