On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Schulz <sch...@adi.com> wrote: > This last week we had a sudden large increase in the size of the named > process resulting in the machine running out of memory and hanging. > This is with bind 9.9.6 on a Solaris 10 Sparc machine.
This is probably going to be an annoying suggestion, but have you considered using not a Sparc for this? I was a huge Sun / Sparc fan (I *still* miss my Sun 4/360), but you are in a definite minority using this for production BIND. Sometimes there is safety in numbers... W > > I have posted in the past about a steady continuous growth in the > size of the named process. The Subjects for those posts are: > failed: out of memory > Process size versus cache size. > bind-9.10.0-P2 memory leak? (I hijacked someone else's thread) > > I have also filed a bug report about this continuous growth. > > The following measurements show the steady continuous growth over > a little more than a month. > > Thu Oct 16 14:01:42 EDT 2014 46014 > Thu Oct 16 14:04:50 EDT 2014 99835 > Thu Oct 23 20:06:01 EDT 2014 317071 > Thu Oct 30 09:31:31 EST 2014 426647 > Thu Nov 6 20:06:01 EST 2014 532291 > Thu Nov 13 11:00:46 EST 2014 618143 > Thu Nov 20 20:06:00 EST 2014 701472 > > But then last week the following happened. > > Wed Nov 26 08:06:00 EST 2014 758702 > Wed Nov 26 20:06:00 EST 2014 2099961 > Thu Nov 27 08:06:01 EST 2014 3416580 > Thu Nov 27 20:06:00 EST 2014 4618297 > Fri Nov 28 08:06:00 EST 2014 5733163 > Fri Nov 28 20:06:01 EST 2014 6801203 > Sat Nov 29 08:06:52 EST 2014 No output from the ps command. > > We were closed for thanksgiving when this happened. The only recursive > queries would have been for email processing by Sendmail. Monday morning > we had to reboot the machine by powering it down and back up. > The logs did not show any unusual messages from the named process. > > Tom Schulz > Applied Dynamics Intl. > sch...@adi.com > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users