Performance Issue for bind-9.4.2-P2 at Linux

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:52:02 +0300,
Bind Petras <bind at inbox.lt> wrote:

> I have the same problem, since there is no reply from BroBind, I'll
> post answers about my system: - OS kernel version The problem is
> noticed on systems running openSUSE 10.1 with kernels
> 2.6.16.21.-0.13-smp and 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp

[snip]

> - number of sockets named actually opens when you see the many
>  SERVFAILs (use lsof for example to see this)
> 
> # lsof -n | grep -c named
> 11890

If your server regularly needs to open this number of sockets, I
suspect it exceeds the capacity that P2 versions can reasonably offer.
I'd strongly recommend you to try 9.4.3b3.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.