How do I identify if bind9 is using 4 cores?

Manish Rane manishr78 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 08:51:12 UTC 2021


Oh - Thanks for the help.
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Thanks and Regards,
Manish R


On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:59 PM Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:

> On 17/06/2021 05:32, Manish Rane wrote:
>
> Hi Manish,
>
> > I have BIND 9.16.17-Ubuntu on ubuntu and have 4 cores. I have configured
> >
> >  more /etc/default/bind9
> > OPTIONS="-n 4"
> >
> > And then restarted the services. How do I verify if bind9 has spawned 4
> > processes and distributed among those?
>
> BIND does not start multiple processes. There's only ever one process,
> called "named". BIND starts multiple threads. You can see these by using
> the "top" command in Linux, and then pressing "H" to see threads rather
> than processes. You should see 4 worker threads, as well as some other
> threads.
>
> Regards,
> Anand
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