Jukka Pakkanen wrote: > Danny Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti : > >> Jukka Pakkanen wrote: >>> Danny Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> kirjoitti : >>>> What is the error that you see? There are several possible errors that >>>> you might be seeing. >>>> >>>> Danny >>> When the 9.5.0-P2 crashes (freezes) there's no errors or anything in the >> event viewer. Only message is the above mentioned FD_SETSIZE when restarting >> the >> service. >>> The named service keeps growing in memory size, and then randomly stops >> responding to anything. At that point the service stops growing as well. But >> the >> service itself is still active (task manager lists it). We have set our >> network >> monitor make a dns status query every minute, and if there's no response to >> restart the service. >>> Usually the named crashes few times a day. One of our recursive servers >> crashed 4 hours ago and after restart named was about 28M of size. Now after >> hour hours it's already 126 megs, 2195 handles and 9 threads. And this is not >> very busy server. >>> Another observation, one of our not-so-busy caching-only servers was >> running 9.5.1b1, it run days without crashing, but was eating memory. After 5 >> days of running named was using over 2 gigs of RAM and the server was running >> out of memory. Now installed 9.5.0-P2 to this server 4 hours ago, and it has >> crashed 8 times by now... named just stops responding and we need to restart >> the >> service. >> >> When you look at the number process how many handles and threads do you >> have? You need to add those columns to task manager via the view->select >> columns... menu. They are not there by default. > > In this recursive server (2xPIII, W2KSP4, 1G RAM) which crashed 5 hours ago > named now has named using 138M of RAM, 2325 handles and 9 threads. > > The caching-only server (2xXeon dualcore, W2K3, 4G) where I switched from > 9.5.1b1 to 9.5.0-P2 today, just crashed again. After restart the named used > 28M RAM, 270 handles and 14 threads. Now after only 5 minutes it is 35 megs, > 690 handles and 14 threads and both the memory consumption and handles are > growing every cycle.
And the logs do not have any error messages? It is likely to be in the application event log unless you have reconfigured your logs. Danny
