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From: mf@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: named going into an infinite loop ...
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.105209.28006@ircam.ircam.fr>
Date: 22 Oct 90 10:52:09 GMT
Sender: mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)
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Machine: DECsystem 5820 (RISC)
OS:      Ultrix 4.0 (Rev. 179)

Every once in a while (every 3-4 days), the name daemon starts eating CPU
time, goes to the top of the queue, and fills the syslog error message
table with messages of the form

	Oct 22 10:23:37 localhost: 93 named: accept: Too many open files

(one a second, approximately) until it is killed and/or chokes /usr/spool.
Upon restart, it works fine.  There is no apparent flood of requests prior
to that.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to approach the problem?

Thanks,
Michael Fingerhut