DHCP/UDP performance tuning..

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Tue Mar 27 17:51:46 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:31:17AM -0500, Cory Meyer wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on performance tuning a DHCP server?

http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-users&m=115334003807766&w=2

One-line summary:  dhcpd performance is bound to fsync(), which is
called once for every REQUEST/ACK pair.  Other stuff on your system
that also calls fsync() (such as syslog) should probably be shot.


In some future release (I'm told the sky will be blue), we hope
to queue ACKs into a list...fsync() once and then transmit them
all.  This would multiply our scaling point on this bottleneck
by several hundred most likely.

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