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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:14:07 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Vogt <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: too many open file descriptors messages since bind 9.4.2-P1 (port dns94)
Message-ID:  <487CA29F.6080500@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <487C9457.5080609@bsdunix.ch>
References:  <487C9457.5080609@bsdunix.ch>

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Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Since i updated my FreeBSD 6.3 dns server with the latest bind version 
> in the ports (dns/bind94) my system is flooding my log with "too many 
> open file descriptors" messages.
> 
> Is there something i can do?
> 
> Example:
> Jul 15 12:08:38 intern named[50840]: socket: too many open file descriptors
> Jul 15 12:09:05 intern last message repeated 68 times

Is this a busy name server handling thousands of queries per second?

If so, the solution, perhaps not surprisingly, is to increase the number 
of file descriptors :)

kern.maxfiles: 12328
kern.maxfilesperproc: 11095

Kris




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