too many open file descriptors messages since bind 9.4.2-P1 (port dns94)

[Kris Kennaway]

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:54:11 +0200,
> Thomas Vogt <freebsdlists at bsdunix.ch> wrote:
> 
>>>> Since i updated my FreeBSD 6.3 dns server with the latest bind  
>>>> version
>>>> in the ports (dns/bind94) my system is flooding my log with "too many
>>>> open file descriptors" messages.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something i can do?
>>> How many sockets is named actually using while it makes this log
>>> message?  Try, e.g,
>>> % sockstat | grep named | wc -l
>> Not that many:
>> sockstat | grep named | wc -l
>>       996
> 
> Ah, it's actually quite a lot in this context:-)
> 
> If that's regularly happening, I'm afraid recent P1 versions don't
> handle that well, and recommend you try 9.4.3b2 ore 9.5.1b1.

Or increase the number of file descriptors as a workaround, per my email :)

Kris