rndc fails when machine swaps

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Fri Mar 29 09:10:01 UTC 2002


Will Yardley <william-nospam-newdream-net at no.spam.veggiechinese.net> wrote:
> i've been noticing recently that when our nameserver is swapping (it
> doesn't have that much ram in it), rndc will become unresponsive, and
> bind will no longer respond to a SIGTERM.

The cure is Buy More Memory.

> decreasing the cache-size in named.conf is a workaround; however i
> noticed this problem again yesterday when another application started
> taking up a lot of memory / CPU, so i'm wondering if this is a bug.

> runing bind 9.2.0 (non-threaded) in i386 linux (debian 2.2 / potato) as
> unprivileged user.

> has anyone else had similar problems?

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