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From: farhad@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Run away named "accept: Too many open files" Ultrix 4.1A
Message-ID: <1991May23.001937.2384@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 May 91 00:19:37 GMT
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Originator: farhad@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU

Hi,

We are having some problem with named under Ultrix 4.1A that is
causing a lot of headaches.

For some reason after named is used a while (I think), suddenly
named process  starts grabbing about %65 or more  of CPU and print
millions of:

"May 22 09:34:31 LOCALHOST: 18415 named: accept: Too many open files"

(about 60 per second) in syslog file that causes the /var filesystem
to fill up.

I tried Ultrix 4.2 named also and I got the same result.  My next task
is to go back to ultrix 3.1C named.

The config files have been used before and on many different machines
and old versions of Ultrix too.

Any help would be appreciated.


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