BIND Exiting on Signal 10 ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <090520001011229955%mrgigabyte at hotmail.com>,
 <mrgigabyte at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to solve a problem with BIND exiting on Signal 10. This
>occurs with some regularity of approximately every 8 to 10 days.

Signal 10 is Bus Error, which usually indicates some form of programming
error.

>From what I can determine from searching the archives of this
>newsgroup, this problem could be related to memory. As such I am
>logging the ps output 4 times an hour to see is I can determine what
>was happening just prior to the exit. Following is the ps output within
>in 15 minutes, prior to the exit. The second line is the output
>immediately after it restarts.
>
>root   77972  0.0  1.7  3008 2124  ??  Is   24Apr00   4:23.73
>/usr/local/sbin/named -u root -g bin /etc/namedb/named.conf
>named died just before Tue May  9 00:00:00 PDT 2000
>
>root   15980  0.0  1.5  2240 1924  ??  Ss   12:00AM   0:00.08
>/usr/local/sbin/named -u root -g bin /etc/namedb/named.conf

I was going to say that it might be happening because the process had
reached the datasize limit, but it seems unlikely that the limit would be
around 3MB.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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