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[Castricum, Ben (W&O SO OPS NET Netwerk beheer)]

> > Which operating system and version are you using.  I guess it's
> > Solaris, but I'd like to be sure about it, and would like 
> to know the
> > OS version.  How many CPUs are available on your machine, 
> and how many
> > threads is named using?
> 
> I should have mentioned this in my previous post, but I am 
> using Solaris
> 8 with 2 US-IIIi CPUs.
>  
> > If you disable threads, does that provide
> > reasonable performance without other problem?
> 
> I recompiled with --disable-threads and all seemed well (no noticeable
> performance loss). However when I switched again to the 
> threaded version
> I did not get the POKED TIMER message again. I have been closely
> monitoring the logfiles for several hours and all seems fine. 
> Named uses
> 7 threads now. 

I cheered a bit too early : 

16-Jul-2008 15:37:48.283 loading configuration from
'/etc/bind/named.conf'
16-Jul-2008 15:37:48.315 reloading configuration failed: too many open
files

Which is strange because ; 

root at ns1:~# plimit 7323
7323:   /sbin/named -u bind
   resource              current         maximum
  time(seconds)         unlimited       unlimited
  file(blocks)          unlimited       unlimited
  data(kbytes)          unlimited       unlimited
  stack(kbytes)         unlimited       unlimited
  coredump(blocks)      unlimited       unlimited
  nofiles(descriptors)  32768           32768
  vmemory(kbytes)       unlimited       unlimited

root at ns1:~# ps -ef | grep bind
    root  9097 18895  0 15:41:58 pts/2    0:00 grep bind
    bind  7323     1 26 07:42:35 ?       517:08 /sbin/named -u bind

root at ns1:~# plimit 7323
7323:   /sbin/named -u bind
   resource              current         maximum
  time(seconds)         unlimited       unlimited
  file(blocks)          unlimited       unlimited
  data(kbytes)          unlimited       unlimited
  stack(kbytes)         unlimited       unlimited
  coredump(blocks)      unlimited       unlimited
  nofiles(descriptors)  32768           32768
  vmemory(kbytes)       unlimited       unlimited

root at ns1:~# lsof -p 7323 | wc -l
     600

I'll dig into it some more.

Ben