DNS Performance Numbers

[kreios at gmail.com]

I am running some performance tests on named to see how it performs
with different configurations on FreeBSD and figured I would share the
first results.  The first tests are  for serving up static data.

System:
  Supermicro PDSMi Motherboard
  1G Memory
  Intel Pentium D CPU 3.40GHz
  Intel Gigibit NIC
  Bind 9.2.3

OS              UP      UP+P    MP      MP+P    MP+TP   MP+TT   MP+TP+P MP+TT+P
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FreeBSD 4.11    28455   28370   28976   X       X       X       X       X
FreeBSD 6.1     29074   34260   34635   35730   17846   38780   19776   44188
FreeBSD Stable  30190   34707   33294   36651   18893   39374   19449   44169
FreeBSD Current 30707   34029   32300   33689   15535   40554   13886   42071
Ubuntu 6.06     X       X       X       X       X       37294   X       X

UP = Uni-processor Kernel
MP = Multi-processor Kernel
P  = Device Polling
TP = Threaded Bind using libpthread
TT = Threaded Bind using libthr

--
Dave