[dns-operations] 86198 queries per second from BIND 9

[Rick Jones]

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 18:10 Chris Wilson wrote:
> 
>>I'm getting 45,000 qps from a $1200 HP Procurve DL320 G5.  Should be
>>able to get 200,000 qps from a dual quad core xeon for about $5000.
> 
> 
> Sorry to destroy your dreams, but quad core xeon is a bit of marketing 
> gag, only sometimes with higher power than dual core:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/12/06/quad-core-xeon-clovertown-rolls-into-dp-servers/page7.html
> 
> I've got a german artice measuring with CPUspec 2006, the simple result 
> is a dual-cpu quad-core Intel platform has the power of 4 cores, which 
> means 8 cores running only at half power. Pour quoi?

Je ne sais pas, but I would like to see a link to that article if there 
is on online.  Seeing SPECcpu2006 in the press is always interesting.

rick jones
http://www.netperf.org/