From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 20:12:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1E716A417 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5373513C46B for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.neville-neil.com (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/y.out) with ESMTP id l8GK24M8047663; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:01:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Peter Losher In-Reply-To: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> References: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND performance under FreeBSD 7-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:12:45 -0000 At Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:40:23 -0700, Peter Losher wrote: > > [1 ] > As some of you know back at BSDcan 2007, I made it known that we had > seen BIND9 performance suffer under FreeBSD and that under threaded > build on SMP systems, Linux had blown FreeBSD out of the water in terms > of performance. > > As it's now (well was) EuroBSDcon, one of our engineers re-ran the query > test I mentioned back at BSDcan and it looks like the work kris@ has > spearheaded has paid dividends. Re: > > -=- > Last night I built a disk with the August snapshot and re-ran the test. > FreeBSD performance is indeed much improved -- almost as good as Linux. > > fbsd-7-current (200704) 44K queries/sec > fbsd-7-current (200708) 84K queries/sec > > Gentoo Linux (2.6.20.7) 93K queries/sec > Fedora Linux (2.6.20.7) 87K queries/sec > > Disk-to-disk copy speed is 90 MB/s for Linux and 20 MB/s for the > April snapshot of FreeBSD; it is unchanged for the August FreeBSD > snapshot. This is reassuring because the zone files should be > in memory and disk performance shouldn't be an issue. > > In any case, FreeBSD-current has greatly improved between April > and August. > -=- > > (FYI - the disk controller on these boxes are mpt Serial SCSI) > > Not quite there, but a significant improvement nonetheless. If anyone > needs more information about the test, let me know. > Hi Peter, Thanks for running this stuff and reporting the results. Any way we can get you to run these nightly or in a script? :-) Best, George