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From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?=
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Subject: Re: too many open file descriptors messages since bind 9.4.2-P1
	(port dns94)
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At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:13:11 +0200,
Thomas Vogt <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch> wrote:

> Since i updated my FreeBSD 6.3 dns server with the latest bind version 
> in the ports (dns/bind94) my system is flooding my log with "too many 
> open file descriptors" messages.
> 
> Is there something i can do?

How many sockets is named actually using while it makes this log
message?  Try, e.g,
% sockstat | grep named | wc -l

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