bind 9 chrooted & syslogd

[Dan Am]

Hello,
I have bind 9.22 chrooted on SuSE-Linux 8.2 on a sysloghost, that is
receiving from several other machnines. 
The problem: Whenever I restrart named, the process just slows down and does
not answer up anymore. It takes roughly ninety minutes just to start up and
load all the zones. Even then it does not answer queries, though the
processes are alive. 
I poked around and found that syslogd needs to be restarted and the problem
is handled. 
The question: Is this a) normal behaviour ? b) a bug in syslogd c) a bug in
bind d) something else ? 

Syslogd is running with:
/sbin/syslogd -r  -a /var/lib/dhcp/dev/log

Has anyone encountered/handled this w/o restarting syslogd all the time ? 

Thanks for reading

Dan