named-xfer causes 100% CPU Utilization

[Danny Mayer]

At 11:47 AM 9/27/01, Kevin Vaughn wrote:
>I have just set up my first set of DNS servers running 8.2.4 on a pair on
>Windows NT 4 servers.  When I look at the performance monitor on my slave
>server, there are around 10 instances of named-xfer running that are causing
>the CPU utilization to constantly stay at 100%.  The behavior is only on my
>slave server; the primary server does not have named-xfer running.

There was a bug in the NT code that caused this to happen. This is fixed
in 8.2.5 which will be available shortly. The real problem is with the primary.
Look in it's event log for errors.  Try upping the pagefile size and rebooting the
primary.  It may very well be running out of memory during the zone transfer.

>The server is a Pentium II 266 MHz with 64 MB RAM.  SCSI HDD.  I have about
>120 zones in a single domain.

I assume you really mean hosts in the domain.

>I just need to know if this sounds normal to you.

No, but the problem has been fixed.

         Danny