RE: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread Eugene Pefti
Hi Bert, Thanks for providing your opinion. Looks like my mysql-slow.log is sitting idle. There's nothing written to it. I think I minimized those aforementioned powerdns respawning errors. The two only things that still disturb me are: Jun 6 15:23:21 ns1 pdns[893]: TCP nameserver had error, cycl

RE: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread Brad Dameron
I forgot that PowerDNS actually uses InnoDB tables which uses different memory settings. Check this over for some good settings: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/01/innodb-performance-optimization-basics/ On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:36 -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: > I remember I set it to

Re: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:14:41AM -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 5, respawning

RE: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread Eugene Pefti
I remember I set it to 200 while fine-tuning mysql server. Just thinking that having the default value doubled be sufficient. These are the other settings that I upped: key_buffer_size=32M max_allowed_packet=8M Eugene -Original Message- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread Joe Croft
I had a similar problem. I figured out it was my mailserver doing name lookups on the 10s of thousands of spams it gets barraged with each day. I solved it by having my server use the upstream name server for name resolution. When you think about this, it makes sense, rarely will the name lookup

Re: [Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread 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 5, respawning

RE: [Pdns-users] TCP nameserver had error, cycling backend

2008-06-06 Thread Eugene Pefti
Hi Daniel, I found your suggestion very helpful, thanks. The irony is that after deleting those "\" characters in four domains pdns still complains about unknown escape sequence. Could it be the character other than "\" that makes exceptions? Eugene -Original Message- From: Daniel Gree

[Pdns-users] Any cure for powerdns respawning ?

2008-06-06 Thread Eugene Pefti
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 5, respawning Jun 6 08:32:27 ns2 pdns[14696]: Our pdns instance exited w