Why is BIND running multiple copies in RH 7.1?

[Adam Lang]

The way to check this would be to look at the parent id of the named
processes?  Would be the same?  (I believe you that it is one program....
just figuring if that would be the rule of thumb to check other programs
too.)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reid" <jim at rfc1035.com>
To: "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder at home.com>
Cc: "RedHat 7.1 Mailing List" <seawolf-list at redhat.com>; "BIND Mailing List"
<bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: Why is BIND running multiple copies in RH 7.1?


> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Snyder <swsnyder at home.com> writes:
>
>     Steve> I've got too many copies of named running at once.
>
> No. You just think you have.
>
>     Steve> Having gotten my shiny-new copy of RedHat v7.1 installed, I
>     Steve> opted to run BIND as I had with my previous RH 6.2
>     Steve> installation.  I found that I have 6 copies of named
>     Steve> running.
>
> This is some Linux idiocy. BIND9 is threaded and on some Linux systems
> each thread is reported as a process in the output from ps. There
> really is only one named process executing on your system. It just
> happens to have 6 threads internally for handling queries, loading
> zones, etc, etc.
>
> BTW, you should upgrade to BIND 9.1.1. There are nasty threading bugs
> in earlier BIND9 releases.