Could BIND8.4.6 recognize multiple CPUs?
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue May 17 11:25:47 UTC 2005
At 4:55 PM +0800 2005-05-17, Joe Shen wrote:
> I installed BIND8.4.6 on my solaris box which has two CPUs. I noticed
> that named always run on one CPU. Could BIND8.4.6 recognize multiple
> CPUs?
Nope. BIND-8 is inherently single-threaded. It simulates
multi-threaded operation by some clever programming. If you want a
multi-threaded version of BIND, you have to use BIND-9 and you have
to build it with explicit support for multi-threading.
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