Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:56:21 -0600 From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> To: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com> Cc: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BIND 9.1.1rc2 and FreeBSD 4.2-stable Message-ID: <20010302135621.F18466@marius.org> In-Reply-To: <20010302115410.K24722@staff.msen.com>; from wayne@staff.msen.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:54:10AM -0500 References: <3A9EDD99.7DC1B1CE@staff.norlight.net> <20010302115410.K24722@staff.msen.com>
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I also am seeing very similar symptoms on FreeBSD 3.3-S with BIND9.0, BIND9.1, and 9.1.1rc1. There seems to not be a rhyme or reason why it fails -- I've had it fail within 2 hours of restarting, or as long as one week. On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:54:10AM -0500, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:39:05PM -0600, Hyunseog Ryu wrote: > > > > Hi, folks > > > > I have questions for BIND version 9.1.1rc2. > > Recently I installed BIND 9.1.1rc2 into one of FreeBSD 4.2-stable > > version. > > After installation of BIND, it works fine for a while. > > But when I look at the "top" command output, > > it says that memory consumption of named is increasing continuously. > > Yesterday I saw that named consumed more than 67MB memory. > > 67MB is a reasonable size for named. Your box has 256M, so don't > worry about it. > > > And today named suddenly stopped to respond. > > Do you guys have similar problem? > > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU > > COMMAND > > 42818 dns 2 0 29472K 28528K poll 18:02 10.79% 10.79% named > > > I don't know what caused this problem. > > This concerns me. We had a similar problem with 9.1.0 where named > would stop responding (oddly, host continued to work but dig@localhost > hung). Our interim fix was a script that ran every 5 minutes > checking for timeouts and restarting named if it hung. After the > upgrade to 9.1.1rc2, we have not seen this problem. And we serve > a LOT of dns since in addition to our clients we're a top level domain > server. > > The problem is not specific to FreeBSD, we see it on BSD/OS as well. > > I see you upgraded to rc3 recently, perhaps that will make a difference. > > If you contact isc about this, you can reference ticket > [ISC-Bugs #912] (bind9) > since it sounds like the same problem. > > Should this happen again, try to get a stack trace. We're not getting > core files when we kill it. > > /\/\ \/\/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator URL: http://www.marius.org/ http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0xF5D89089 *updated 2001-02-26* "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a mini-van full of DLT tapes traveling down the highway at 65 miles per hour..." -Andrew Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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