Timeouts during cache cleaning and zone collection

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:44:22 GMT, 
>>>>> none at nospam.none (Nod) said:

> I'm having a similar issue to this, namely the cache cleaning.
> It seems that whenever the cache-cleaner runs, it blocks requests to the
> nameserver. While the secondary cache will take over, most of the clients will
> see a 5-6 second delay (Windows) before using the secondary server. Setting the
> cache cleaner to run once a minute takes about 7-8 seconds to clean. Leaving it
> at an hour means it will be cleaning for about 20 minutes.
> Turning off the cleaner results in bind using up all the ram and getting killed
> by the OS.

> The server in question serves about 11000 zones. Dual xeon 2.8, 4gb ram, FreeBSD
> 5.4 64 bit, MAXDSIZ, MAXSSIZ, and DFLDSIZ set to 2gb at the moment. Generally,
> about 800-900 recursive clients at any given time.

> If anyone has any ideas how to improve the cache cleaner performance, it would
> be most appreciated. As it is now, the nameserver 'going away' happens far too
> often, and is very noticable.

As I said in a separate message, upgrading to latest versions would be
a good idea (if you're using an older version), particularly for this
type of issue.  As also mentioned in the separate message, specifying
a build-time option for memory management sometimes improves the
performance.

And finally, if you're enabling threads, I'd suggest to turn it off.
The current implementation of BIND9 threading is particularly
unfriendly with FreeBSD's thread support.  It doesn't buy anything but
poor performance.  (This will be improved in 9.4, but it cannot be a
short-term solution).

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