DNS Performance Numbers

[David Xu]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 10:59, kreios at gmail.com wrote:
> 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

Thanks for your benchmark result! so it blows away the rumor that our thread
library is slow.

David Xu