Bind upgrade 9.3.4-P1 to 9.3.5-P1 - Higher CPU

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:38:47 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time),
Mike Diggins <diggins at McMaster.CA> wrote:

> This morning I upgraded one of my two Name servers, a Sun V210, running 
> Solaris 10. Prior to the upgrade, my named deamon typical ran around 5-10% 
> utilization. Since the upgrade it seems to be hovering in the 15-23% 
> range, which seems a bit high. There was mention this patch would have a 
> performance impact, but I wasn't expecting quite this much. Is this 
> expected?

The level of performance impact depends on many factors, and so it's
difficult to say what's exactly expected in general.  But I won't be
surprised the load increase from 5-10% to 15-23% for the migration
from 9.3.4-P1 to 9.3.5-P1.  The forthcoming 9.3.6b1 should be (much)
more lightweight.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.