[rbldnsd] out of memory error

[Dave Lugo]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Dave Lugo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to load a very large zone into rbldnsd.
>
> It's a dnset comprised of 8 files, ranging in size from a few MB to almost 
> 2GB.  Total size of files for this dnset is about 2.5GB.
>
> The error message I'm seeing is:
>
> Oct 12 10:23:38 server rbldnsd[821]: out of memory
>
> I've tried clearing cache memory, no improvement.  The server has 32GB of 
> ram, it's not like it's actaully short of memory, post-cache-clearing:
>
> [root at server]#  free -g
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:            31          6         25          0          0          3
> -/+ buffers/cache:          2         28
> Swap:           15          0         15
> [root at server]#
>
> The daemon already serves a few other zones, totaling about 100MB in size.
>
> Suggestions on how to get this big*ss zone to load? :)
>

PS -

It's running RHEL 6.3, 64 bit kernel.

ulimit* showed a stack size of 10240KB, I increased it to 40960KB, but
am still seeing the out of memory error.

* other values in ulimit looked fine

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