Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes: > On 2012-04-20, Kostas Zorbadelos <kzo...@otenet.gr> wrote: >> Just discovered that under Linux bind seems to use 5 threads (2 >> processors). Under the same VM config on OpenBSD bind seems to have >> no threads (using T under top(1)). > > In 5.0 and 5.1 threads are entirely done in userland and won't show > up separately in top. > > In -current this has changed however in OpenBSD BIND is built without > threads anyway. >
Doesn't this affect BIND's performance? Anyway, a stress test will tell... >> Is this part of the patches in the OpenBSD version of BIND? > > No, this is just an argument to the configure script. The patches in > the OpenBSD version of BIND deal with privilege separation, the RNG, > and switching to safer string functions. > Understood. Thanks, Kostas -- Kostas Zorbadelos twitter:@kzorbadelos http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kzorba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- () www.asciiribbon.org - against HTML e-mail & proprietary attachments /\
