Re: Bind performance

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Rowley
I can't reach that value with a Dell OptiPlex GX280 w/ onboard bge(4) MP kernel, net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=250, 4.0 or -current, doesn't matter. Collision count increases monotonically. Stops forwarding packets, etc. Switching to em(4) carries limit to ~25k to ~30k. consider trying to increase ifq.

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Darrin Chandler
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: In any case, it's obvious DNS performance is not something I need to worry about. I think you are correct. You can also add more DNS servers at any point. Simplistic (but sufficient) load balancing and redundancy are trivially easy with DNS. -- Darrin Chandler

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Berk D. Demir wrote: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > > > And when does performance really start to matter for a DNS > > server? > > 15.000 queries/sec seems a bit unrealistic to me. I bet even > with 15.000 packets/sec your ethernet cards will create an >

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Berk D. Demir
Henning Brauer wrote: err... 15k pps is easily reachable well, not on a soekris perhaps I can't reach that value with a Dell OptiPlex GX280 w/ onboard bge(4) MP kernel, net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=250, 4.0 or -current, doesn't matter. Collision count increases monotonically. Stops forwarding packets

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Berk D. Demir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-22 22:04]: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > > >And when does performance really start to matter for a DNS > >server? Say I host 500 web sites and 500 email domains with > >"average" traffic, for some value of average. Is a limit of > >15,000 DNS queries/se

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Berk D. Demir
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: And when does performance really start to matter for a DNS server? Say I host 500 web sites and 500 email domains with "average" traffic, for some value of average. Is a limit of 15,000 DNS queries/second ever going to be a problem? If not, when could it become a probl

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:43:42AM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > I have seen some benchmarking stat's on Bind [1] and NSD that > compare FreeBSD 6.1 to 4.11, and 4.11 kick 6.1's ass and then > wipes up the floor with it. > > I'm going to be putting a DNS server in production soon and was > plan

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/11/22 18:01, fRANz wrote: > On 11/22/06, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I understand performance is secondary to security for this > >project, but I am curious what the numbers are in this specific > >case. > > For performance and security too, I suggest you to try djbdn

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread Kyle Drake
I've had very good results with MaraDNS, been using it for at least two years now with no problems. Some highlights: Memory based, so it loads all the configuration settings on startup and then jails itself so it cannot write to the FS Small, and FAST - It's been benchmarked as faster than Bind (

Re: Bind performance

2006-11-22 Thread fRANz
On 11/22/06, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand performance is secondary to security for this project, but I am curious what the numbers are in this specific case. For performance and security too, I suggest you to try djbdns instead bind: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Reg