daemon shutdown time with large zones (bind 9.2.4)

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:47:09 -0700 (PDT), 
>>>>> Chris Timmons <cwt at networks.cwu.edu> said:

>> - did you try that with or without ISC_MEM_USE_INTERNAL_MALLOC (or
>> both)?  After re-checking the patch, I noticed it was not effective
>> when ISC_MEM_USE_INTERNAL_MALLOC is enabled.  (sorry, this was my
>> bad again).

> I tried it without ISC_MEM_USE_INTERNAL_MALLOC (since that was the
> original worst-case), and the time stayed about the same as the
> worst-case.

>> - did you see the long period to shutdown the server even just after
>> starting it?  If the bottleneck is not really in the memory
>> management but in that code traversing the DB structure, the problem
>> should occur even if the server does no actual work (i.e., only just
>> loading and destroying the DB).

> My testing scenario has been to run the daemon in the foreground with
> "-g", and then shutdown via ^C as soon as the large zone has been loaded.
> So we are just loading and destroying the DB.

I see, thanks for the information.  Then I tend to agree that the
problem is in the data structure or the algorithm.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp