Hello, When we were using 9.5.0-P2, we had to compile with 4096 FDs; otherwise, we saw the same socket complaints.
The default only has 1024. It would appear that your environment may require more FDs as ours did. HTH -- Chris ----- Original Message ---- From: pollex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:04:55 AM Subject: socket: too many open file descriptors Hello, Running bind9 9.3.4-2etch3 on Debian etch 4.0(last stable version with apt-get install bind9) and I continue to get "socket: too many open file descriptors" messages. my ulimit -a: core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 24576 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) unlimited max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited And we already tried the selectest tool: ./selecttest selecttest: nsocks = 4093, TEST_FDSETSIZE = -1, FD_SETSIZE = 1024, sizeof fd_set = 128 created 4093 sockets, maxfd = 4095 FD_CLR test...OK FD_SET test...OK select test...OK Any ideas? Thanks in advice _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users