Re: Too many open files tinydns?

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-dns@e-smith.com>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Shaun wrote:

> Today i ran into a problem where i realized one of my servers running
> tinydns stopped responding to dns requests.  I attached strace to the
> process and this is what i found flying down the screen...
> 
> open("data.cdb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)   = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files)
> write(2, "94df4d61:308f:0cdb - 0001 <removed>"..., 39) = 39
> recvfrom(4, "\37\212\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\10<removed>\3com\0\0\1\0\1", 513, 0, 
> {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(17118), 
> sin_addr=inet_addr("206.135.56.98")}, [16]) = 30
> time(NULL)                              = 1163630773
> 
> A lsof greping data.cdb piped to wc -l shows that tinydns has 1020 instances 
> of data.cdb open.

Do you have a full strace you can post on the web somewhere?

How many open sockets does tinydns have open?

[I doubt that it ever helps when you obfuscate data in bug reports.]

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Charlie