If you define NOALARM in anlghea3.h, or use a timeout of over two minutes, you shouldn't have this problem. On the other hand your DNS lookups will slow way way down.
You might want to try one of the DNS helper applications, <http://www.analog.cx/helpers/index.html#dns>. Most of them won't have this problem and will be way faster. Jason On 6/5/02 11:20 AM Erik Kratzenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hi. We're running Analog 5.23 on our FreeBSD 4.1.1 servers here at pair >Networks and recently we've noticed several systems running out of file >descriptors (open file sockets) daily. After some investigation, it was >determined to be Analog processes (run via crontab) that were using up all >5000+ file descriptors in one run and ultimately rendering the server >unusable. > >It appears that this is happening due to Analog/FreeBSD's handling of the >DNSTIMEOUT mechanism. Every time a DNS lookup is timed out, the system >abandons the current file socket it had open for the UDP connection and >opens a new one. After awhile this results in a list of phantom open files >that the system still thinks are in use: > >This could very well be a FreeBSD problem as well as an Analog problem, but >wanted to see if anyone had any ideas or suggestions here. Raising the >DNSTIMEOUT setting helps the problem a little, by reducing the number of >timeouts, but for a large enough logfile, these will still increase until >they hit the limit. Any assistance is appreciated. ----------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
