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

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:50:46 -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?

Not yet.  We still think we need at least one more beta to see if it's
stable enough.  The next beta version will be released pretty soon,
but we've not decided the target release date of the next beta yet.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.