How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?

[Philippe.Simonet at swisscom.com]

Hi

i read that 'old' bind version where better when threading was disabled. Load balancing 
between 2 processe was better.  Is this always the case ?
http://zaphods.net/~zaphodb/high-performance-bind9.html 

some interesting links for DNS performance : 
http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/Building_Scalable_DNS_Cluster_using_LVS 
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2006-September/063917.html 

Philippe



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+philippe.simonet=swisscom.com at lists.isc.org]
> On Behalf Of Eivind Olsen
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 09:56
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any benchmarks out in the public, which
> could give some insight into how well BIND 9 scales with multithreading?
> I've tried looking on this list, and googling, but haven't found anything
> yet.
> 
> To be a bit more specific - I'm not sure what a good option for server
> hardware would be for a recursive DNS server. On one hand, the Sun (ok,
> Oracle) Niagara/Coolthreads architecture seems to work nicely enough, but
> maybe I'd be better off with some generic Intel/AMD based solution with
> fewer threads/cores but higher GHz per thread?
> 
> Regards
> Eivind Olsen
> 
> 
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