<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi nusenu,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've always had a steady growth in the request list I always thought that it is normal. I'm not 100% sure but unbound tries again later to get an answer for the requests in the list but backs-off asking the servers with longer intervals over time.</div><div class="">y=you can use "unbound-control dump_requestlist" to so see what is currently in the list. Most likely you will see *.in-addr.arpa. queries and others that will never be answered. </div><div class="">If you want to you can flush them with "unbound-control flush_requestlist".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I use the munin plugin too :) <a href="https://dns.seby.io/stats.html" class="">https://dns.seby.io/stats.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Sebastian</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Sep 2018, at 8:25 pm, nusenu via Unbound-users <<a href="mailto:unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl" class="">unbound-users@nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I upgraded recently from 1.7.3 to 1.8.0, since then I'm observing a constant<br class="">and steady growth of the requestlist queue. Currently it is about x8<br class="">what it usually used to be and it still keeps growing.<br class=""><br class="">Is that expected with some of the new default?<br class="">I specifically disabled so-reuseport (see other thread).<br class=""><br class="">The number of qps remained unchanged.<br class=""><br class="">I assume that a growing queue size is bad for service quality <br class="">if the number of qps is unchanged.<br class=""><br class="">Since I'm currently not observing any negative impact on reply time<br class="">I'm also not ruling out that this might be a monitoring issue (using unbound's<br class="">munin plugin). Have there been any changes that would affect the requestlist graph?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/nusenu_" class="">https://twitter.com/nusenu_</a><br class="">https://mastodon.social/@nusenu<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>