Re: BIND 9.2.3, large zone xfer and 100% CPU Utilization

Alex Rainchik <rainchik@mail.ru> wrote:
> Hello,

> We are using BIND 9.2.3 on Solaris8, transfering ~45Mb zone from mail-abuse.com
> every three hours, as they don't support IXFR feature. The issue we have is that
> at the end of the transfer "named" goes berserk and CPU utlilization goes trough
> the roof, up to 100% for about 5-10 minutes.

> During those 5-10 minutes "named" does not respond to any queries, "rdnc status"
> does not work either. It's the only zone xfer running at that time....

> Just wondering if it's a bug or a feature?

Garbage collection (of the old zone) could take some time. How
slow is your sun ?

> Thank you!

I manage a spews-zone ( about 35M in size) using IXFR between bind-9
and it seems to go smooth on a p-1200 slave. ( i don't see any
lockups during or after loading)

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