named crashing with too many open files

[Kevin Darcy]

Ben Stern wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:24:44PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > Try running /usr/proc/bin/pfiles on named's PID to see what the rlimit is *actually* set to. It
> > will also show you which of those open files are ttys, sockets, FIFO's, regular files, etc. which
> > may help to troubleshoot the problem.
> When the limit is set to 512, named is successfully limiting itself to 512
> open files, almost all of which are sockets and all of which are (according
> to lsof) to different ports on 3 specific servers.

TCP or UDP? What, if anything, is special about those 3 servers?


- Kevin