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<p class="MsoNormal">Running bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3 on CentOS 5.5 and I’m constantly seeing the following in my BIND logs:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">general: error: isc_socket_create: fcntl/reserved: Too many open files<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I don’t see why. Named only has 583 files open and I upped the max to 90000 in /etc/security/limits.conf. Has anyone encountered this before or have any insight?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># lsof -n -u named|wc –l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">583<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># su -s /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -a' named<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200<o:p></o:p></p>
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