From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 17:26:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB1F16A403 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F3413C428 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from arbitor.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) (AUTH: LOGIN seklecki, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:26:04 -0500 id 00056417.45A7C4AC.0000B9D9 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:25:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" X-X-Sender: lavalamp@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org To: patrick In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070112122512.J66207@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: BIND 9.3.2 on FreeBSD 6.1-release-p2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:26:04 -0000 Did you run it in foregroun debug mode or ktrace(1) it yet? Turn on querylog and see if you're getting worked? ~BAS On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, patrick wrote: > I'm running BIND 9.3.2 on FreeBSD 6.1, and am noticing that it gets > out of control after running for a while. > > PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 60480 53 1 132 0 195M 194M RUN 41.7H 75.54% named > > After restarting it, its CPU usage goes back down to what it should > be, as does its memory usage. I really don't want to babysit this > process, so I'm trying to find the cause of this. I have > "max-cache-size" set to "150M", as before I turned this on, this > process would just grow and grow until it hit FreeBSD's limit and > would stop responding all together, not to mention eating up as much > CPU time as it could. > > I never had this problem at all with BIND 8, and am wondering if > there's something I'm doing wrong with BIND 9 to have this problem? > Has anyone else experienced this? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were."