Help! So many named daemons

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

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> Our DNS server is Compaq DS 20 with 2G memory, 5G swap space.
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> This machine is cache only name server.
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> Currently BIND version that we are running is 8.2.5.
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> After successful installation, it seems that there is
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> no problems for a few days.
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> But when I logged on the server several days later,
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> I found so many many DNS daemons (named), that were about 500.
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> Because of exhaustion of memory and swap space, there is no
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> room for another process.
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> The parent process ID of DNS daemons are 1 without an exception.
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> Why this problem was happened?

	Because something is starting multiple instances.

	Mark
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