bind 9 performance

Kevin Darcy kcd at chrysler.com
Wed Jun 15 20:26:31 UTC 2011


On 6/15/2011 4:06 PM, abushlaibi at ies.etisalat.ae wrote:
> What about zone configuration in BIND 8 and BIND 9? Is there any difference between the two ?
>
> Thanks&  Regards
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eivind Olsen<eivind at aminor.no>
> Sender: bind-users-bounces+abushlaibi=ies.etisalat.ae at lists.isc.org
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:30:58
> To:<bind-users at lists.isc.org>
> Subject: Re: bind 9 performance
>
> hugo hugoo wrote:
>
>> - Has anyone faced a performance problem due to an upgrade bind8/bind9?
> I didn't notice anything like that when I last upgraded from BIND8 (back
> in 2001 or so).
>
> When that is said: what kind of hardware are you running it on? Single
> CPU? Multiple cores? I've seen some fairly ancient performance comparisons
> between BIND8 and BIND9 that claimed BIND8 performed best on a single-core
> CPU only. And if I'm not mistaken, BIND9 had some less-than-optimal
> threading back in those days, and performs much better now.
>
> Is pure performance important to you? Will you be likely to even notice?
> Also, BIND8 has been deprecated for almost 4 years now.


See doc/misc/migration.

                                                                         
     - Kevin






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