performance stats

[Stephen Williams]

Performance is directly related to the hardware you throw at Bind so a 
v100 with a gig or ram wont handle the same as a 480 with 5 gigs of ram 
and two cpu's. I have tested limits here myself and a hard limit for 
bind that can be changed via the conf file is the recursive clients 
which if I remember correctly is set to 1k ( don't quote me on that one 
). To test my Solaris servers here I have written a perl script that 
actually fires off multiple dig commands at the given server to see what 
and where I bend at, but there are not any true tools that I can think 
to test performance.
Martin Timbro wrote:

>I'm looking into a solution myself at work. mrtg is a good place to 
>start and multiple scripts can be found on the net to treat the numbers 
>generated.
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>Vince Hoffman wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>> 	My boss has asked me to provide some information regarding 
>>bind performance on solaris, in particular regarding queries per second and
>>if its worth our looking at hardware DNS load balancing. has anyone got 
>>any (pointers to) statistics on bind 9 (9.2.2 idealy ;) on solaris 
>>performance?
>>probably a bit of a FAQ but my googling hasnt been sucsessful.
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>>Thanks,
>> 	Vince
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Stephen T. Williams
UNIX Admin / DNS Specialist
Adelphia Communications Corp
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E-Mail : williamss at adelphia.net