[Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

[Brad Dameron]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:14 -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote:
> Good morning or day, guys.
> Is there any explanation or a configuration cure to minimize errors like
> this:
> 
> Jun  6 08:32:27 ns2 pdns[23831]: 50044 questions waiting for database
> attention. Limit is 50000, respawning                         
> Jun  6 08:32:27 ns2 pdns[14696]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
> 
> Jun  6 08:32:27 ns2 pdns[14696]: Respawning
> 
> I kept increasing the value of max-queue-length but it seems the number of
> questions keep building up and eventually leads to the above-said situation.
> Are there any settings that I should look at in the MySQL. I run gmysql
> backend.
> 
> Eugene
> 
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This appears to be all MySQL issue. If you have the extra memory you
might look at upping your key buffer. There are many tuning factors for
MySQL. You would need to ask on their list for those. They will want the
values in "mysqladmin extended" and "mysqladmin variables".


Brad Dameron
Senior Systems Engineer
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