Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:59:00 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND performance under FreeBSD 7-CURRENT Message-ID: <46EE25B4.8050306@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> References: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org>
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Peter Losher wrote: > 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. > > Best Wishes - Peter Please send me a test case for your disk-to-disk issue. Scott
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