file descriptor limits eating my lunch

[Chris Thompson]

On Jan 12 2010, Patrick Larkin Jr wrote:

>I've been running BIND 9.4.2-P2 since shortly after
>it came out.  I'm on Solaris 10, 

With that combination, you would be much better off running 
9.4.3 or later (at least 9.4.3-P3 for security reasons if 
you have to stick to 9.4.x). This will use poll(2) rather
than select(3c) and get you away from the whole ghastly
FD_SETSIZE mess, which is almost certainly the cause of
your problems:

>                                  and two of my 6
>machines are complaining about too many open
>file descriptors.  I've searched here, and around
>and here is what I know:
>
>running 'pfiles' on named on the two complaining
>show 1023 files.... the happy ones are showing less
>than that.  This tells me there's a limit of 1024
>somewhere.
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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk