I have recompiled with -DFD_SETSIZE=8192 -DISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE=8192
and set the shell script that starts bind with ulimit -n 8192. I'll see if I get any more crashes. Jeff JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: > At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:56:13 -0400, > Jeffrey Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Running bind 9.5.0-P2 with -DISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE=8192 >> on Solaris 8, recently patched, on Sparc. Server is DNS only, on >> reasonably old hardware, and thus fairly busy most of the time. >> >> Got this in the the logs : >> >> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] socket.c:2586: fatal error: >> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] select() failed: Invalid argument >> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] exiting (due to fatal error in library) >> >> and named had to be restarted. I know that there have been a few others >> reporting this on the list, but I wanted to add one to the frequency >> counter. > > I don't know much about Solaris 8, but from my experiences with other > versions of Solaris, it requires redefining FD_SETSIZE in order to use > a larger size of FD set for select(). Please try increasing > FD_SETSIZE directly, i.e., rebuild BIND9 with -DFD_SETSIZE=8192. > > --- > JINMEI, Tatuya > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. > -- Jeffrey Collyer Hostmaster/CMS Admin University of Virginia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 434-982-4696