Re: tinydns - softlimit: fatal: out of memory

[Emilio Perea <eperea@walkereng.com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:29:17AM -0700, ax@ax-im.com wrote:
> Hi all.  My apologies in advance if any information is missing here.
> Please let me know how I can help diagnose.

You didn't include your tinydns run file, but I'm guessing your
softlimit is way too low.  I used -d300000 on i386 and thought I'd
gradually increase it on amd64, but had errors until I used ten times
that amount.  If you increase it gradually it will come to the point
that the error logging stops, but it's still not enough to answer all
queries, which get dropped silently.  Be sure you verify that it is
actually working, not just stopped giving error messages.

As I said, I had to increase the softlimit from 300000 to 3000000 before
it worked 100% of the time.  Had no problems with qmail or the http part
of publicfile, though the softlimit for the ftp service also had to be
increased.

 exec envuidgid Gtinydns envdir ./env softlimit -d3000000 \
        /usr/local/bin/tinydns