[unsolved] having [named] 5 times at ps

Qubax · Last edited by Qubax on Mon May 12, 2003 8:20 pm; edited 1 time in total

can someone explain to me,why i see 5 named processes named in ps, because there should be only one started.
i recognized it today, few days ago, i alsways saw just one process running and haven't changed any configs

kashani · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject:

This is because BIND 9 is multi-threaded and should start mutiple processes if it detects more than one CPU.

I too noticed that the usual single process is now the 5. I did change the config to use 2 CPU's which it wasn't picking up automatically. There was also a bind ebuild update recently which may have turned on the multi threading. Does you box have mutiple CPU's?

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Qubax · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:53 am Post subject:

no, just one cpu, and this is configured in /etc/conf.d/named (if i remember right).
did you change to number there, or somewhere else?

de4d · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:35 am Post subject:

IIRC several (default? 5) bind processes are intended to speed up things. each request is handled by a seperate process (security, whatever) and spawned *before* the request is being made, so its already in memory.

this # of processes has nothing to do with en/disabled multiCPU support...
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kashani · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject: number of processes

Odd. I have one machine running 5 processes and one running a single process, both using the same bind ebuild.

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Qubax · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:37 am Post subject:

i don't find a reason, why he should start 5 processes,