Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.6.ESV.R4+dfsg-0+lenny4 Hello,
http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201107/major-improvement-bind-9-startup-performance Workaround for excessive startup time with large number of zones; allow setting of an environment variable to tune the number of tasks, default is 8, recommends 200 zones per task. If you have 200000 zones set the BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINT environment variable to 1000 before starting named: csh: setenv BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINT 1000 sh: BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINT=1000; export BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINT Applicable to BIND 9.7.4-P1, BIND 9.6-ESV-R5-P1 [RT #25084] -- O_o only one
