rndc: create task manager. no available threads

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Dec 22 10:37:40 UTC 2006


> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > > when I do "ssh remotehost rndc reload", I get the error message "rndc:
> > > create task manager. no available threads". When I ssh interactively
> > > to remotehost and issue rndc reload on the shell command line,
> > > everything is fine.
> > > 
> > > This only happens on one host (running Debian stable as the others
> > > do), which is quite low on memory.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to get rid of this error message and to make things
> > > work instead? What does this error message mean in the first place?
> > 
> > 	It means that rndc was unable to create a thread. rndc only
> > 	attempts to create one worker thread. isc_thread_create() is
> > 	just a wrapper around pthread_create() which has these two
> > 	failure modes.
> 
> And why is this only happening when invoking rndc over a
> non-interactive ssh session?

	I have no idea and I can't reproduce it on our linux boxes
	here.
 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 
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