Too many open files Re: Patch 9.4.2->9.4.2-P1 breaking tcp-responder?

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:26:24 -0500,
jbratton at rackspace.com wrote:

> Did it actually start building up a lot of TCP connections in SYN_RECV  
> state again, or did it just crash?
> 
> The reason I ask is because my busiest caches will crash after running  
> for a day or two with the following entries in the logs:
> 
> Jul 27 13:15:07 s_all at cachens-3/69.20.2.254 named[24864]:  
> socket.c:1736: INSIST(!sock->pending_recv) failed
> Jul 27 13:15:07 s_all at cachens-3/69.20.2.254 named[24864]: exiting (due  
> to assertion failure)
> 
> If anybody would benefit from seeing the gdb output, let me know.  I  
> have *plenty* of core files laying around now.

We've received a similar bug report and have a fix to that in our
development tree (btw: this bug is irrelevant to the recent port
randomization change).  Unfortunately the fix won't be in the next
patch version (P2), but if you're willing to test it I'll send a patch
to you.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.