We have a secondary DNS server and we've been noticing that the DNS.exe process is getting rather large. (Like, rebooting the server large.)
I read something somewhere that 2k3 has two relevant memory leak issues, one is the DNS (supposedly fixed in Windows Server 2008), and another for DHCP.
DHCP is running on this server, but I don't see why. Hence my question. Is the DHCP client service required for (secondary) DNS to function?
Server has: 24 cores (X5650), 8GB RAM
-- edit -- It's worth adding that AD is not installed or relevant to this issue
-- edit 2 -- It is actually the DHCP Client service that is in question here. I didn't realise this at the time of posting. (Lesson: check everything yourself too)
Server has: 24 cores (X5650), 8GB RAM
... Uh ... I hope you don't mind my pointing out that this is a colossal waste of server resources. Both in that you're using something this powerful for DNS and in that you're running Server 2003 on it. If I can set you up a screaming DNS server on an old HP G4 I have lying around, can I give this box a good home, and a job more suited to its capacity?