socket: too many open file descriptors

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:03:23 -0800 (PST),
pollex <andres.vidoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Running bind9 9.3.4-2etch3 on Debian etch 4.0(last stable version with
> > apt-get install bind9) and I continue to get "socket: too many open
> > file descriptors" messages.

> The version of bind is "BIND 9.3.4-P1.1"
> And the error appears when named open around of 1000 sockets:
> lsof | grep named | wc -l
> 968

"9.3.4-P1.1" still seems to be a Debian specific version, but if this
is featurewise equivalent to 9.3.5-P1, you should at least upgrade to
9.3.5-P2 (and build it with a large value of ISC_SOCKET_MAXSOCKETS).
In fact, I'd rather more strongly recommend 9.3.6.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.