multi CPU system 100% CPU useage

[Danny Mayer]

David Friend wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am having a problem with bind 9.4.1 on one of our new machines. The
> machine has 2 quad core processors and is running Windows 2003 R2. Bind sees
> the CPUs when starting and logs "found 8 CPUs, using 8 worker threads".
> About an hour after starting named.exe consumes all available CPU.
> 

This is fixed in the next release.

Danny

> I have done some RTFM and STFW and with a bit of testing I found that if I
> start bind either at the command line with the -n1 or by adding -n1 to the
> "Start Parameters" in the service manager it logs "found 8 CPUs, using 1
> worker threads" and while running like this never has a problem.
> 
> However if I change the "Path to Executable" in the service manager to
> include the CPU parameter, like "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\bin\named.exe -n1",
> it is ignored and bind starts 8 worker threads and goes on to eat my
> processors about an hour later. In fact further testing has shown I can add
> anything at all after named.exe and it has no effect whatsoever.
> 
> Does anyone know a way to make bind run as a service in Windows and use only
> one CPU?
> 
> Regards
> David Friend
> www.gibdesign.com 
> 
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