Re: DNS cpu utilization

2003-05-20 Thread peace bwitchu
We are currently hitting 45000-55000 queries every five minute this is usually when cpu hovers around the 6-10 percent area. This is usually from 8 am to 11:30 then it goes to around 1-3 percent in the late afternoons. I have all the services shutdown except Bind and ssh is turned off as well. I

Re: DNS cpu utilization

2003-05-20 Thread debian
I would suggest you setup some sort of monitoring on the bind process. I personally use mrtg to graph the output of "rndc stats". The main dns server I am responsible for runs about 12k-15k dns queries per 5 minutes and has just about zero load. It's running on a slowish (aren't they all) sparc

Re: DNS cpu utilization

2003-05-08 Thread peace bwitchu
These two bind servers are authoritative for 200 zones and as far as clients go that's a hard one. Because of the way everything snowballed before I got ahold of it it could be as many as > 10,000 this is a best guess of course. Once I prove that debian is the way to go with this I plan to implem

Re: DNS cpu utilization

2003-05-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 8 May 2003 03:08, peace bwitchu wrote: > this box working too hard or is the normal. Since > this box is dedicated solely to dns I just want to > make sure that I'm not pushing bind too hard and end > up with stability problems. Without knowing how many machines are using "this box" as a

DNS cpu utilization

2003-05-07 Thread peace bwitchu
I have recently installed bind 9.2.2 on 2 debian woody sytems and have a couple of questions concerning the cpu utilization. Bind is running on a 2.4 Ghrtz P4 and during a time period of 11:00 am -2:00pm the average cpu util. is around 1o percent. during the other hours of the day we are around 3