[bind10-dev] benchmarking

[Jeremy C. Reed]

The wikipage at http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/DnsBenchmarks will document 
our official standard and specific DNS benchmarks we will use for 
measuring BIND 10 performance improvements.

The wikipage at http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/DnsBenchmarkIdeas is a free 
list of ideas and suggestions of what to research. This list is based 
on ideas shared at various meetings. Feel free to add your thoughts.

With the many variables (label size, response size, number of zones, 
size of zones, DO bit, UDP/TCP, on and on) we could create hundreds of 
different reports based on similar date with slight differences of 
testing.

Our goal has been initially to be as fast as BIND 9. But that is not 
defined well. So we will choose some initial authoritative scenarios for 
some common BIND 9 use cases to focus on. Please look at 
http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/DnsBenchmarks and discuss.

I will add a third trac wiki page to document the existing setup. I have 
done many tests of old BIND 9.6, old BIND 8, other DNS servers, 50+ 
date-based snapshots of BIND 10. I will do some recent BIND 9 versions 
soon.

  Jeremy C. Reed
  ISC

p.s. The framework has helped me detect more defects. Another ticket 
coming up ...