How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?

Jonathan Petersson jpetersson at garnser.se
Wed Sep 29 08:43:47 UTC 2010


I did some benchmarking on this about 1.5 yrs ago, here's a graph
representing the results: http://sedoss.com/bind.png

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:37 AM,  <Philippe.Simonet at swisscom.com> wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: bind-users-bounces+philippe.simonet=swisscom.com at lists.isc.org
>> [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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