[Unbound-users] Could not generate request: out of memory

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Zitat von Gareth Hopkins <gabbawp at gmail.com>:

>> Zitat von Gareth Hopkins <gabbawp at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi There,
>>>
>>> Any ideas ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Gareth
>>
>>
>> "Out of memory" is a result of failing to allocate memory so the OS  
>> is not able to service a request it maybe should. This could be a  
>> problem when unbound tries to create sockets because of buffer  
>> space involved. You should carefully check the user limits  
>> regarding sockets/files/memory for the user unbound is running as  
>> and the overall machine limits.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> My question was more related to what caused the out of memory errors  
> while connectivity to the internet was down and if there is a  
> workaround available.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gareth

I'm not the expert but it might be that unbound tried to open a lot of  
connections because many servers are unreachable suddenly if you  
connectivity is lost, and that might be the reason for "out of memory"  
error. So maybe lowering the "outgoing-range" could help or raise the  
limits for unbound user and/or use libevent. Also note that some OS  
have a 1024 file descriptor limit per process.

outgoing-range: <number>
               Number of ports to open. This number of file descriptors can  be
               opened  per  thread. Must be at least 1. Default depends on com-
               pile options. Larger numbers need extra resources from the oper-
               ating system.  For performance a a very large value is best, use
               libevent to make this possible.

Regards

Andreas