Using 2 CPUs with BIND

[Mike Diggins]

I increased the logging to the debug level, but still no mention of it 
using 2 CPUs. In fact, I don't get the line "found X CPUs, using Y worker 
threads" at all, even mentioning one CPU. Even with the switch '-n 2", it 
doesn't give any error that it didn't find two CPUs. Is that Linux only? 
Is there anything I need to add during compiling for this to work?

-Mike


On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Evan Hunt wrote:

>
>> dns1 named[28513]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named -t /var/named/chroot
>> dns1 named[28513]: using 2 CPUs
>>
>> When I start BIND on my Solaris 10 SPARC dual CPU (V210) system 9.4.2-P2,
>> I don't get the message "using 2 CPUs", but that's what I want. I
>> compiled it with './configure --prefix=/usr/local/bind --enable-threads'
>> and start it with '/usr/local/bind/sbin/named -n 2 -c /etc/named.conf'.
>> How do I know it's actually using the two SPARC CPUs?
>
> That log message has changed since BIND 9.2; it now says "found X CPUs,
> using Y worker threads".
>
> If you're not seeing that, your logging might not be set to the right
> severity level.  Make sure to include "info"-level messages.
>
> --
> Evan Hunt -- evan_hunt at isc.org
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.