Performance tuning

Sten Carlsen stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Mon Nov 26 18:32:12 UTC 2012


On 26/11/12 19:23, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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> For question 1:
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> "Loading" is a function of the web site not DNS.  Your first question
> could have to do what the default site is in your web configuration
> and what kind of rewrite rules are getting you to the other.
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> If it were me I'd probably do some timed "host" or "dig" commands for
> the two records to verify name resolution itself wasn't a problem.  
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> I guess it MIGHT be a minutely slower to resolve www if it is a CNAME
> to the other as opposed to both being A records.   However, since this
> is a fairly common practice I doubt it is likely to be of major
> importance in overall timing.
>
I checked with firebug DNS is in ms and loading the first file was 1.53s
and 3.07s in the two cases(the file is 9.7kB), so external access does
not depend on fast DNS, you need to focus on the web server.
>
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> *From:*bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Adamiec, Lawrence
> *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 1:13 PM
> *To:* bind-users at lists.isc.org
> *Subject:* Re: Performance tuning
>
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> To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS.  We
> only host 25 domains.
>
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> The report must also address these two specific questions:
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>  
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>  1. Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu <http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu> load
>     quicker than kentlaw.iit.edu <http://kentlaw.iit.edu> in any browser?
>  2. What happens if we remove the forwarders option from named.conf?
>
> I can't duplicate the issue in Q1 and I'm trying to determine a way of
> testing Q2.
>
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>
> Larry
>
>  
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us
> <mailto:dougb at dougbarton.us>> wrote:
>
> What a delightfully vague requirement. :)
>
> I would push back a bit on exactly what problems are attempted to be
> solved here. The BIND defaults are about as efficient as they can be,
> especially so in later versions.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 11/26/2012 11:01 AM, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been tasked with authoring a DNS report "to achieve optimal
> > performance."  The report must include:
> >
> > CPU usage
> > memory usage
> > bandwidth usage
> > throughput
> > latency
> >
> > I have found some information regarding the number of queries processed
> > per minute but nothing of value for the above areas.
> >
> > Is there some documentation that discusses the above areas?
> >
> > We are running BIND 9.6-ESV-R5-P1, Solaris 10 on a SPARC server.  My
> > report will include the fact we must upgrade from BIND 9.6-ESV-R5-P1
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > Lawrence Adamiec
> > UNIX Mgr
> > IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
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