BIND 9.x caching Performance under heavy loads
Kelsey Cummings
kgc at sonic.net
Mon Mar 28 18:22:30 UTC 2005
Rick Jones wrote:
> Kelsey Cummings <kgc at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>Any recomendations from the list?
>
>
> Try and get a profile from when the CPU is not pegged, and when it is
> pegged. That means finding a profiling tool for your platform that
> can attach to a running process. For Itanium that would be one of
> Caliper (Linux or HP-UX) or q-syscollect (Linux). I'm not sure what
> they would be for other platforms, but would love to learn.
I'll try, new ground for me but I'd really like to nip this one.
> Looking at the data for c.ns.sr.sonic.net I see that the ifPackets
> seems to increase over time as well, then drop to nearly nil - when
> the CPU spikes? It also seems that there is a point where the forks
> spike? Etc etc.
I'm not sure about the drop-to-nil, but the rise it packets was
legitimate request traffic that was supposed to be directed to another
server.
> Is there any chance of something, well, nefarious happening here?
It's possible but I think unlikely.
-K
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