Query timeouts on FreeBSD 7 over network

[Thomas Rasmussen]

Vinny Abello wrote:
> The only way I've gotten it to work on FreeBSD 7 in a stable manner is without threads. What were you referring to that didn't work perfectly?
> -Vinny
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Hello there,

I have bind9.4.2-P2 running on two recursive servers at around 1000 
queries / second on FreeBSD 7 stable from a couple of weeks ago. This is 
with the default "make config" settings, which on all my machines means 
threads enabled, although FreshPorts disagree on the default setting for 
threads: http://www.freshports.org/dns/bind94/
I compiled the port with a larger (65000) FD_SETSIZE and increased 
kern.maxfiles (also to 65000) with sysctl but other than that the 
machines are perfectly standard. I am not even sure larger FD_SETSIZE 
and increasing kern.maxfiles is neccesary with -P2 but it helped a bit 
with all the issues I was having with -P1. At least -P2 doesn't use 
nearly as many file descriptors and sockets as -P1, so I guess it might 
not be neccesary anymore. I don't know what the problem is supposed to 
be with threads on FreeBSD7 but I haven't run into it, it is very stable 
and has been for a few weeks now.

Best regards


Thomas Rasmussen