Sluggish performance of "named" daemon.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The name resolution on this name server is sluggish.

  • It is not just name resolution that is sluggish but the OS. When the problem is happening logins and running other OS commands are slow.

  • The problem seems to only happen when network connections go above ~750.  The only thing that I have found is the iowait times go to ~30% on sdb5, but CPU and memory look fine.

  • sdb5 has the DNS database and the daemon.info logs.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8

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