rndc: create task manager. no available threads

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > when I do "ssh remotehost rndc reload", I get the error message "rndc:
> > create task manager. no available threads". When I ssh interactively
> > to remotehost and issue rndc reload on the shell command line,
> > everything is fine.
> > 
> > This only happens on one host (running Debian stable as the others
> > do), which is quite low on memory.
> > 
> > Is there any way to get rid of this error message and to make things
> > work instead? What does this error message mean in the first place?
> 
> 	It means that rndc was unable to create a thread. rndc only
> 	attempts to create one worker thread. isc_thread_create() is
> 	just a wrapper around pthread_create() which has these two
> 	failure modes.

And why is this only happening when invoking rndc over a
non-interactive ssh session?

Greetings
Marc

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