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-<a name="Bv9ARM.ch02"></a>Chapter 2. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Resource Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
+<a name="Bv9ARM.ch02"></a>Chapter 2. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> Resource Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
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<dl>
-<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547108">Hardware requirements</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547132">CPU Requirements</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547143">Memory Requirements</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547158">Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</a></span></dt>
-<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547303">Supported Operating Systems</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570868">Hardware requirements</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570892">CPU Requirements</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570903">Memory Requirements</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570918">Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570995">Supported Operating Systems</a></span></dt>
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<div class="sect1" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
-<a name="id2547108"></a>Hardware requirements</h2></div></div></div>
-<p><span class="acronym">DNS</span> hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest.
+<a name="id2570868"></a>Hardware requirements</h2></div></div></div>
+<p><acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest.
For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from
-active duty have performed admirably as <span class="acronym">DNS</span> servers.</p>
-<p>The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 may prove to be quite
+active duty have performed admirably as <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> servers.</p>
+<p>The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 may prove to be quite
CPU intensive however, so organizations that make heavy use of these
features may wish to consider larger systems for these applications.
-<span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing full utilization of
+<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing full utilization of
multiprocessor systems for installations that need it.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect1" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
-<a name="id2547132"></a>CPU Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
-<p>CPU requirements for <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 range from i486-class machines
+<a name="id2570892"></a>CPU Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
+<p>CPU requirements for <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 range from i486-class machines
for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class
machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC
signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect1" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
-<a name="id2547143"></a>Memory Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
+<a name="id2570903"></a>Memory Requirements</h2></div></div></div>
<p>The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the
cache and zones loaded off disk. The <span><strong class="command">max-cache-size</strong></span>
option can be used to limit the amount of memory used by the cache,
-at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <span class="acronym">DNS</span>
+at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym>
traffic. It is still good practice to have enough memory to load
all zone and cache data into memory &#8212; unfortunately, the best way
to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ fast as they are being inserted.</p>
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<div class="sect1" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
-<a name="id2547158"></a>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</h2></div></div></div>
+<a name="id2570918"></a>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</h2></div></div></div>
<p>For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative
configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and
any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ as none of the name servers share their cached data.</p>
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<div class="sect1" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
-<a name="id2547303"></a>Supported Operating Systems</h2></div></div></div>
-<p>ISC <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 compiles and runs on a large number
+<a name="id2570995"></a>Supported Operating Systems</h2></div></div></div>
+<p>ISC <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 compiles and runs on a large number
of Unix-like operating system and on Windows NT / 2000. For an up-to-date
list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level directory
of the BIND 9 source distribution.</p>