Bind is hanging on CentOS 4.4

[David Ford]

Every few releases I try to add threads back in and get the same
results.  Both on my 32bit linux and 64bit linux machines (current
gentoo).  Named crashes or hangs.

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> This may have something to do with the different way Linux does threads
> compared to UNIX. 
>
> On my RHEL5 servers I see named humming along quite happily with 5
> threads across two processors so it may be the original hang problem had
> nothing to do with threads.   I tried to find something that would
> document a process apparently running threads when told not to do so but
> couldn't. 
>
> There was a change in the way threading is done by Linux between 2.4 and
> 2.6 kernel and CentOS 4 is based on earlier 2.6 kernel than RHEL5 so its
> conceivable there is kernel version issue there but if so I didn't find
> reference to it.
>
> Jesse - did you try the --disable-linux-caps mentioned in the link I
> sent you yesterday?:
> http://linux-vserver.org/Problematic_Programs
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