Why is BIND running multiple copies in RH 7.1? (fwd)

tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com
Wed May 2 05:18:01 UTC 2001



	Oh yeah, forgot to mention, -n is number of CPUs to
	use, not number of 'copies'

-Tim


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:16:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: tmaestas at maestas.dnsconsultants.com
To: Steve Snyder <swsnyder at home.com>
Cc: RedHat 7.1 Mailing List <seawolf-list at redhat.com>,
     BIND Mailing List <bind-users at isc.org>
Subject: Re: Why is BIND running multiple copies in RH 7.1?


	Threads under linux will show up as multiple
	processes.  As BIND 9 is threaded, this is why
	you are seeing multiple processes.  If you don't
	want the threads, get the source code and 
	./configure --disable-threads.

-Tim



On Tue, 1 May 2001, Steve Snyder wrote:

> 
> I've got too many copies of named running at once.
> 
> Having gotten my shiny-new copy of RedHat v7.1 installed, I opted to
> run BIND as I had with my previous RH 6.2 installation.  I found that
> I have 6 copies of named running.
> 
> Of course, it is not just the RH version that is different but BIND
> itself.  Having read the BIND v9.0.x doc (gasp!)  I knew that one
> could specify the number of copies to run with the "-n" switch.  I was
> suprised to see that RedHat's start-up script didn't specify a "-n 6".
> 
> Despite the BIND doc saying that named could figure this out for
> itself, I decided to force the issue by appending "-n 2" to the
> program's command line.  (This is on a SMP machine.)
> 
> So now when I run ps I see that I still have 6 copies of named
> running, but now each copy is shown as having "-n 2" on it's command
> line.  Sigh.  This isn't exactly what I was after.
> 
> So... what is causing 6 copies of named to run and what can I do to 
> get the *^%$#&#! thing to respect the "-n" switch?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> *** Steve Snyder ***
> 
> 




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