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

[Chris Wilson]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:12:30PM -0500,
>  Chris Wilson <wilsotc at ufl.edu> wrote 
>  a message of 19 lines which said:
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>> Yes, I get 300 QPS with the RedHat AS4.4 64bit binary,
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> Even when trying the worst compilation options, I cannot go down to
> 300 qps, even on a small Xen virtual machine... I wonder how you
> attained it :-)
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Probably because after running for just a few seconds I saw lots of 
timeouts from queryperf, and stopped the test before it had a chance to 
normalize.  At any rate, 10X higher performance from recompiling is 
amazing.  I wonder why a big company like RedHat doesn't notice things 
like this.