TinyDNS and running out of memory - pfSense 2.1

leenooks

Hi, hoping somebody can help me debug this problem.

I use TinyDNS and DNS resolver to service my private DNS and be an overall resolving for any of my hosts on my private network. it works well, however, after a few days the TinyDNS server stops resolving.

I have also seen on a few occasions that my syslog reports out of swap space - I'm using pfSense on an ALIX board. I'm thinking this is related.

From what I can determine I think I'm running out of space, because TWO svscan's are starting - and I cant figure out how/why:

2.1-RELEASE][admin@alix.leenooks.vpn]/root(3): ps -ajx | grep svscan
root      45130     1 45130 45130    0 Is    ??    0:00.01 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/svscan /var/run/service 2>&1 | /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/svscan
root      45368 45130 45130 45130    0 S     ??    0:30.14 /usr/local/bin/svscan /var/run/service
root      45685 45130 45130 45130    0 S     ??   11:55.75 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/svscan
root      80047     1 80047 80047    0 INs   ??    0:00.01 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/svscan /var/run/service 2>&1 | /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/svscan
root      80351 80047 80047 80047    0 SN    ??    3:17.85 /usr/local/bin/svscan /var/run/service
root      75639 22908 75353 46123    2 R+     0    0:00.00 grep svscan

As a result of this, I have a growing number of "supervise" processes each day.

[2.1-RELEASE][admin@alix.leenooks.vpn]/root(7): ps -Af | grep super | awk '{print $6}'|sort|uniq -c
   1 axfrdns
   5 dnscache0
   5 dnscache1
   5 dnscache2
   5 dnscache3
   5 dnscache4
  27 log
   1 super
   1 tinydns

I would expect to only have 1 "supervise dnscacheN", although they all have the same PPID (45368 in this case)?

Should I have two svscan's running? If not, what starts them? (I havent done any config updates with the GUI since I kill the 2nd one that is started at boot up.)

…deon