performance stats

[Vinny Abello]

/contrib/queryperf

At 02:58 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote:
>Performance is directly related to the hardware you throw at Bind so a
>v100 with a gig or ram wont handle the same as a 480 with 5 gigs of ram
>and two cpu's. I have tested limits here myself and a hard limit for
>bind that can be changed via the conf file is the recursive clients
>which if I remember correctly is set to 1k ( don't quote me on that one
>). To test my Solaris servers here I have written a perl script that
>actually fires off multiple dig commands at the given server to see what
>and where I bend at, but there are not any true tools that I can think
>to test performance.
>Martin Timbro wrote:
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> >I'm looking into a solution myself at work. mrtg is a good place to
> >start and multiple scripts can be found on the net to treat the numbers
> >generated.
> >
> >Vince Hoffman wrote:
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> >>Hi all,
> >>      My boss has asked me to provide some information regarding
> >>bind performance on solaris, in particular regarding queries per second and
> >>if its worth our looking at hardware DNS load balancing. has anyone got
> >>any (pointers to) statistics on bind 9 (9.2.2 idealy ;) on solaris
> >>performance?
> >>probably a bit of a FAQ but my googling hasnt been sucsessful.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>      Vince
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>--
>Stephen T. Williams
>UNIX Admin / DNS Specialist
>Adelphia Communications Corp
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