[MacOSXS] bind goes wild (overload)

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Tue Sep 24 21:16:15 UTC 2002


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, patpro wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not a bind specialist, and I have a big problem with an XServe,
> running Mac OS X Server.
>
> named runs as 'named -f'
>
> The server shows a severe CPU load even during low trafic hours.
> This load comes from named :
>
>   PID COMMAND      %CPU
>   461 named       94.8%

Is there a truss, ptrace, ktrace, or similar tool in Xserve? No way to
help till we find out what the binary is sitting there doing with all that
cpu.

Doug



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