How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?
Philippe.Simonet at swisscom.com
Philippe.Simonet at swisscom.com
Wed Sep 29 08:37:56 UTC 2010
Hi
i read that 'old' bind version where better when threading was disabled. Load balancing
between 2 processe was better. Is this always the case ?
http://zaphods.net/~zaphodb/high-performance-bind9.html
some interesting links for DNS performance :
http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/Building_Scalable_DNS_Cluster_using_LVS
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2006-September/063917.html
Philippe
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> On Behalf Of Eivind Olsen
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 09:56
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?
>
> Does anyone know if there are any benchmarks out in the public, which
> could give some insight into how well BIND 9 scales with multithreading?
> I've tried looking on this list, and googling, but haven't found anything
> yet.
>
> To be a bit more specific - I'm not sure what a good option for server
> hardware would be for a recursive DNS server. On one hand, the Sun (ok,
> Oracle) Niagara/Coolthreads architecture seems to work nicely enough, but
> maybe I'd be better off with some generic Intel/AMD based solution with
> fewer threads/cores but higher GHz per thread?
>
> Regards
> Eivind Olsen
>
>
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