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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Michael Riexinger wrote:

> i have freebsd 5.3-release with the base bind 9.3 (chrooted). It allows
> recursive queries. After few hours running, the server answers to every
> query with SERVFAIL. Few minutes before, in the logs is this:
>
>
> named: isc_mutex_init failed in new_adbfind()
>
> After /etc/rc.d/named restart it's working fine for a couple of hours...
> What could cause this problem?

Out of memory? Hitting memory limits?

The code appears to chuck the return code if its nonzero, which is pesky.
I suspect its ENOMEM, though.


How big is the named process when it starts malfunctioning?

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