BIND child forks

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Christian Richard Chapman <christain.chapman at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I'm running BIND9.1.3 on a small internal LAN on a very small P166 with
> 128MB of RAM using RH7.2.  I notice that the system forks 5 processes.

Running Linuz ahhh ??  This shows up like this cause of 
linux dealing with threads. 

If you want to spend some time upgrading to 9.2.1 you will have a lot
more features.


> The queries never trouble anything but the first fork, so to save
> resources for the rest of the system I was wondering if you could somehow
> specify the maximum number of spare servers, like you can with Apache.

It's not forked images, it's threads.


On more "normal" systems you see only one process.


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