bind 9.4.3b2 probs - "recursive-clients soft limit exceeded"

Patrick Larkin Jr plarkin at corp.earthlink.net
Thu Jul 24 14:50:46 UTC 2008


on 7/17/2008 1:44 PM JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 said the following:
> At Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:34:15 -0500,
> Patrick Larkin Jr <plarkin at corp.earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>>> The one machine with problems on 9.4.3b2 had status values like this:
>>>> 	recursive clients: 49800/49900/50000
>>>> and now, on 9.4.2-P1 its:
>>>> 	recursive clients: 410/49900/50000
>>> Having 49800 recursive clients seems very extraordinary.  Is that a
>>> normal condition of your server, even when you used 9.4.2?
>> Not at all a normal condition.... and drops to reasonable
>> levels when we downrev'd that machine to 9.4.2-P1.
>> All other machines (9.4.2 and 9.4.3b2) have values below 1000
> 
> This is very strange.  Is it possible to build named without threads
> and see if that still happens?

OK, we deployed a build without threads, and it no longer behaves
that way.  clients remain <1000, but latency is up (8ms query time
from dig @localhost vs 2ms) compared to 9.4.2-P1.

Is there an ETA on when 9.4.3 might come out of beta?

-- 
  Patrick Larkin Jr - Dallas Texas USA
    Earthlink Core Services Engineering
       PLarkin at corp.EarthLink.NET




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