<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Are you allowing long answers when authoritative? Performance measurements with and without additional data in responses is measurable (imo around 12% more network traffic from the replies on auth-only servers).<br><br>hth,<br>Len<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:54 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top:
5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container">Thanks for the response, but that's not it. The auth-only responses are <br clear="none">generating a lot more traffic than the recursive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Doug<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt3208844335" id="yqtfd29404"><br clear="none">On 01/12/2014 05:21 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote:<br clear="none">> Wild guess: network bandwidth runs out before CPU? Why the difference, I<br clear="none">> have no clue.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On 13/01/14 02.16, Doug Barton wrote:<br clear="none">>> Howdy,<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Without going into too much detail, doing some performance testing and<br clear="none">>> am seeing a weird result. On the same systems authoritative queries<br clear="none">>> will happily peg the CPU. However when running recursive queries (with<br clear="none">>> a small zone, all
data cached before testing) the CPU never gets above<br clear="none">>> 80%. The disk is nearly inactive on both systems, and there is no<br clear="none">>> swapping. Using BIND 9.9.4.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Is there perhaps something obvious I'm overlooking here? Any<br clear="none">>> suggestions are welcome.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Please visit <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users" target="_blank">https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users </a>to unsubscribe from this list<br clear="none"><br clear="none">bind-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org" href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org">bind-users@lists.isc.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users"
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