Performance Test Metrics for dns server performance.

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:28 PM -0600 5/8/01, Matt Simerson wrote:

>  That number varied wildly between dnscache and BIND 8. In test 2 & 3
>  dnscache would have had roughly 40,000 cached responses and 50,000 failed
>  responses (per the numbers I posted). BIND on the other hand would have had
>  roughly 15,000 queries cached for the second and third runs.

	I would be very interested in seeing the tests repeated with BIND 
version 9.1.2, because BIND 8 is not multi-threaded while BIND 9 is.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */

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