Why is BIND running multiple copies in RH 7.1?
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed May 2 05:27:40 UTC 2001
What you are seeing is Linux's pthread implementation.
It's a kludge that results in multiple processes showing
up.
Mark
>
> 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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