In article <248683.33657.qm@web31114.mail.mud.yahoo.com>,
Laurent FAILLIE  <l_faillie@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Unfortunately, about once on 2 months basis, it hangs
>again w/o raisons : no special activities, only the
>system load become very very high, the system become
>un-responsive but there is nothing special on the
>console ...). I suspect 'named' this time, I still use
>the one provided w/ 3.0 and it crash time to time.
>
>1/ How to compiler named from pkgsrc w/o threading
>support ?

You can compile the one from source too without threading support.
just edit Makefile.inc in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bind. I am not sure
if the 3.x Makefile.inc has all the required bits, but current's does.

>2/ Can I upgrade my kernel to the latest stable 3.1
>w/o reinstalling all the user land (I don't have the
>time to deal w/ a full upgrade actually) ?

Yes, that should not be a problem, but it will probably not fix your issue.

>3/ Is someone working on this nasty threading problem
>on Sparc architecture ?

Yes, it has been fixed now that SA threads have been disabled on head.

christos