2026-08-29 01:49 UTC
Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB
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@ramble81@lemmy.zip 2026-08-29 03:31
One silver lining about the component restraints, hopefully it drives people to start creating efficient software again. Actually optimizing what you’re doing to save on RAM rather than a gig per tab in Chrome.
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@stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2026-08-29 04:21
I never even thought about this before, but what kind of hardware is a root level DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or quad 8 run on? Are they all roughly the same, or do they take different approaches to the load?
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@Gsus4@mander.xyz 2026-08-29 02:04
stupid RAM price benefit: reduce bloat
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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-08-29 03:08
40 bytes are saved, exactly this amount.
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@heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2026-08-30 03:41
Probably purged some C2 entries too.