[dns-operations] DNS server benchmarking sanity check

[Thomas Dupas]

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net > wrote:
> One thing I’m always reminding people is that most OS’es have optimized for TCP performance and not UDP.
>
>50Gb/s for TCP ~6Gb/s for UDP.  I’ve been frustrated by these defaults in Linux that result in such a performance difference as the outcome.
>...
> 
> puck:~$ iperf -c localhost
> ...
> Client connecting to localhost, UDP port 5001 Sending 1470 byte datagrams, IPG target: 0.24 us (kalman adjust) UDP buffer size:  208 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 127.0.0.1 port 43066 connected with 127.0.0.1 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  6.78 GBytes  5.82 Gbits/sec [  3] Sent 4950578 datagrams [  3] Server Report:
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  6.58 GBytes  5.66 Gbits/sec   0.000 ms 141142/4950578 (2.9%)

Only noticed this thread yesterday, but it seems Anand and me are doing something similar in parallel.
I already reached out to Anand to share/cooperate.

The UDP ~6Gb/s from Jared seems to correspond with my testing.
6Gb/s at 1470 byte datagrams is a bit north of 4M pps.
I can push/receive reliably up to 2,1M qps / pps . NSD is even able to answer 99,94% of the queries at that rate.
But once I push harder my sender starts to crash, or I get measurement inconsistencies (I have had some test runs up to 2,7M qps, but at those rates my test servers start to crash often. So I stopped at 2,1M for all the test daemons).

And like others on this thread have already said: Cloudflare shared many interesting reads / presentations about handling packets at such rates; which was a very useful source!

Br,

Thomas

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